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What is the most important quality we must instill in our children in this day and age?

Is it responsibility, racial tolerance, compassion, self-respect — is it a love of learning, is it spirituality? If you had to pick one attribute that is MOST important…. what do you think it is?

I don’t think you can choose one quality. Love of learning is important, because you can learn everything else, but honesty, tolerance, compassion, responsibility, and self-respect might not necessarily follow.

Marriage and Children – Spirituality Spiritual Families

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Saving Grace – Children & Spirituality [VHS] $19.98 Schoolchildren discuss their impressions of God, the afterlife, and religion, while knowledgeable adults (teachers, ministers, a rabbi) put their comments into perspective in this 46-minute video. The children, ages 6 to 12, come from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds and go to private schools in New York City, Kentucky, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The documentary makers frame their…

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