People Are Good - The Secret of Good Parents (Part 2)

Good parents believe that people are good. What dohonestly and see justice; they are tolerant because
they mean by good? What exactly do good parentsthey approach other people honestly as equal; they
look for in people?are committed because they are honest to the words
Good people means kind and honest people. Whenthey give; intelligent - because they know the
parents want to raise good children they mean kinddifference between honesty and dishonesty, between
and honest children. Why exactly these two words?good and bad.
Some people list values as: appreciating, grateful,The list of qualities, which people use to describe what
caring, compassionate, courteous, forgiving, listening,they mean by good can be endless. However there
loving, patient, sacrificing, tolerant, peaceful, humble,are only two groups, kindness (or love), which is a
committed, respectful, intelligent, fair, and just. Each offunction of people's hearts, and honesty (or
these words has some relation to kind and honest, inconscience), which is a function of people's intelligence,
one way or another these words describe a personthe ability to discern between good and bad.
as the person is either kind or honest.The reason these old-fashioned qualities are not
For example, people are caring and compassionatepopular in conventional parenting vocabulary is that
because they are kind and can imagine anotherthey require parents to have those qualities
person's feelings and pain. People listen to othersthemselves. Here is the complete secret of good
because they are kind enough to be attentive toparents: they themselves are kind and honest, and
another person's needs. People are grateful for thethey raise great children. They don't consider kindness
goodness, which comes from someone in their lives,and honesty as a human weakness. They believe in
and they are kind because they know that goodness.love and conscience.
People are fair because they evaluate situations