I have three children who are all adults now, all graduated from college in 4 years, and there is not a murderer or lazy person among the three. They all love to come home, I love to see them come (and also enjoy seeing their taillights it the end of the visit.) I have been married to the same wonderful woman for 35 years, and this is a great credit to her longsuffering. I have managed to muddle along with life making lots of mistakes and hopefully learning from them.

I think I have instilled the concept in my children that life isn't always fair, suck it up and deal with it. My wife and I have always said we raised children by "skillful neglect" but I see all the heartaches around us with other people's kids, and I guess we stumbled on to something right over the years. I think more aptly put, we reared or children by example rather than making lots of rules, etc. I guess this seems to be my greatest accomplishment, but it is hard to take much credit for it.