What my child should learn when young

1. Detachment

All things is impermanent. Everything will come to an end. So one must not have attachment to all things or all events.

Manage extremes emotion. Do not be too happy as one will be disappointed if it isn't that worth being too happy. Do not be too sad as one will hurt oneself very badly. Just take things moderately, not too happy, not too sad. Managed expectation moderately and everything will seems expected or better.

With the same package, one will never experience the same level or better when one has experience that package before. You can't felt the same level of happiness going back to the same birthday party you'd been before because you have experienced it already and know what is going to happen. So detach yourself from that event and enjoy yourself in every party.

2. Failure

I got this from "The Happiest Toddler on the Block" by Harvey Karp. He was asked, what is the first thing you will teach your child, he says teach them learn how to fail. Not his exact word but this is what I perceive. If one never learn to fail, a simple failure can easily killed a person's will of living. So learn how to fail before learning how to succeed. Thomas Edison remarked "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

3. Compassion

4. Willingness

This quote will sum up this lesson "Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. Where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses." ~ Arlen Price

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