What can we do to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Dick Cheneys?

I feel that we need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can encourage children to make choices built from love, like Mother teresa or from anger, hate and fear like Dick Cheney.

However, You could have asked this question with using Cheney's name, and you might not have inflamed some of the responders who feel a need to defend the man rather than address the underlying issue of positive character development for the youth of America.

A personal attack just invites other personal attacks back.

Resist the urge to lower yourself to the kind of attacking, and insult filled person that you don't want our children to model.

Mother Teresa's focus was helping the sick and the poor, while she promoted peace and love. I feel that hew would disagree that she was generous, kind, charitable in nature, The people that respect these softer traits respect her.

Dick Cheney's focus was the super wealthy, and he did promote war and hate. I think that few would deny that he is arrogant, aggressive, hard-hearted and attacking in nature, The people that respect these assertive traits respect him.

Be honest, open, and loving to your children. Maintain your own responsibilities as parents properly. Establish the concept of balance as a part of society and all the associations therewith. That is, be willing to fight for what is right, and not fight for what is wrong. Easy to say, very hard to do. When my oldest son was 10, he came home one day confused. He and a friend were playing in a schoolyard, and two older boys came and called his friend a name, obviously intending some sort of insult, that started with "n-----". My son and his friend went away, to avoid any further problem, but his friend got angry with him when my son asked him what the word meant. When my son got home and told me this, I didn't know whether to be proud he had no idea what the word was intended to mean, or sad that he'd finally heard it - I told him it was a bad word used to try to insult a person based on the color of their skin, and he should not accept its use in his presence, not to start a fight, but advise anyone using the word that it was insulting, and unacceptable to him. If you do not put up with insult and bigotry, your children will learn the same, and the world will be a better place. To quote a well-known speaker, "Judge people only by the content of their character"

You who are on the road

Must have a code that you can live by

And so become yourself

Because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well,

Their father's hell did slowly go by,

And feed them on your dreams

The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,

So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of tender years,

Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,

And so please help them with your youth,

They seek the truth before they can die.

Counter Melody To Above Verse:

Can you hear and do you care and

Cant you see we must be free to

Teach your children what you believe in.

Make a world that we can live in.

Teach your parents well,

Their children's hell will slowly go by,

And feed them on your dreams

The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,

So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

The first step would be to fix yourself.

Learn to approach things and people with an open mind. Cheney is an example. You seem to regard him as evil. You have completely failed to even consider his point of view - or even consider any migitating information about the man.

In effect you are displaying hatred, intolerance and partisanship.

Until you fix yourself - how can you ask the world to change?

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More Mother Teresas would be okay, but unfortunately our educators are trying to produce liberal vermin not unlike themselves.

Teach children the importance of religion and God, and bring back school prayer.

Is that acceptable to you?

if you truly have to ask, I'd strongly suggest holding off on the breeding..