In the best of all words

We love our families, we love our brethren, but most of all. . .  we love our children. 

Every little wart, every little flaw, usually just makes them more endearing.  Occasionally that flaw lies a little too close to home and then the love also becomes a test, but a test most of us pass with flying colors.

They are "our" children and we want them to have every chance we did and a million more, so they also become our ticket.

For the sake of the children we deal with the trash from the past, recycling it into more positive things.  Giving up bad habits, learning new communications skills, appropriating all those good things we learned about after our parents had their shot at parenting.

With a little luck, and a lot of hard work, we bring up human beings who just keep getting better and better.   We want them to have half of our faults and twice our blessings . . .

and in the best of all worlds -- that happens.