The greatest thing you'll ever learn

[pegkerr]

As I was making my breakfast this morning I had the KSJN Morning Show on, and the song "Nature Boy" started playing.

After listening for a moment, I stepped out into living room, where Fiona was playing a computer game and Rob was talking to Delia, who was sitting on his lap.

"May I have your attention for a moment?" I said. My family looked up at me expectantly. "I just wanted to say that I think that this song has it right. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." I went over and kissed Delia on the top of her head. "If you take anything from what your parents teach you, remember that."

"That's a pretty good rule," said Rob.

If you had to boil down what you want to pass on to your children to one sentence, what would it be?

Comments

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I'd like to pass along the advice I got from my father: "So long as nobody's getting hurt from it, 'just for fun' is a perfectly valid reason for doing anything."

On the other hand, my mother said, "Always make your bed as soon as you get out of it in the morning; otherwise you'll never get it made all day," and she was right about that, too.