Raising kids is like buying savings bonds...like making long-term deposits in the bank; the return is for value more fully realized in about 25 years. Actually, there are many more returns and more often than this. But, nonetheless, our kids often have to struggle on their own before they realize the value of the some of things we would love for them to know...the same kinds of things we had to learn along the way.
Keep making those deposits by doing the right things and believing that satisfaction can prevail, in the long run, over how accepting they are of them in any given moment.
Every quarter you put in the bank of who they are...matters.
