10 Things We Hope We Never Do To Our Children:
1 Buy them secular video games;
2 Allow them online without supervision;
3 Allow them to read Harry Potter and similar books about witchcraft, the occult, and the like;
4 Dress them in ghoulish Halloween costumes or let them participate in any activity that glorify the devil, his pomps and works;
5 Enrol them in a regular school;
6 Take them to a public library without supervision;
7 Let them watch secular TV programs, not even commercials;
8 Take them to a video arcade or similar places;
9 Let them go anywhere with friends whom we do not thoroughly know and trust;
10 Dress immodestly
10 Things We Hope to Achieve for Our Children, As Their Parents:
1 Teach them about the Catholic faith;
2 Keep them away from secular and other dangerous media;
3 Pray as a family on a regular basis, preferably daily; and treat them to precious moments with our Eucharistic Lord as often as we can (adoration);
4 Take them to Holy Mass on a regular basis (preferably daily), and to confession (where applicable, at least twice a month);
5 Educate them at home, being the most comfortable, wholesome, nonjudgemental environment for learning;
6 Teach them life skills by allocating age-appropriate household chores to foster responsibility from an early age;
7 Teach them about the saints, especially our Blessed Mother, to learn from and draw upon their experiences - for inspiration;
8 Strive everyday to become better examples;
9 Practice family devotions, and develop liturgical family traditions that are deeply rooted in our faith;
10 Pray for each of them and try as best we can to, one day, get them to Heaven, our true home!
If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better. - St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
"Mankind's future rests in, and depends upon, the family more than any other society, institution, or environment. " Pope John Paul II
