Saturday, December 3, 2016

The Kindness of Raising a Young Man of Character

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
~ Jackie Kennedy

I recently took a group of teenagers to a school dance.  The girls were accompanied by a remarkable young man.  You could call him a Super Young Man.  (Yes, he once jumped over a bush to open my car door.)  This young man is incredibly polite and opening car doors is just one of the many habits that he has.  On our way to the dance, I asked him about a movie I was going to watch as I figured I would be arriving a few minutes late.  He pulled up a summary of the movie on his phone to tell me about the beginning.  And then when I dropped off the group at the school, I watched this young man shake the hand of the school principal as he entered the dance.  As I drove away from the school, I realized that I felt so much better about leaving my daughters and their friends at the dance given that this young man was with them.  

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