What Did I Teach My Children?

What did I teach my children? I was listening to Dennis Prager on one of his fireside chats. He asks some thought provoking questions. Ask children, what do you think your father taught you? If I look to my own life my father taught me above everything else to work hard. He was always busy. Did your father want you to be smart above everything else? Or did he want you to be successful? Or how about rich? Or perhaps happy? As Dennis Prager tells it in his fireside chat, we all needed to be taught to be good. Probably above everything else we needed to be taught to be good. How many times did a parent or someone tell us to say please and thankyou? We did not just learn this on our own. Or how many times were we told to share something we had? The Bible says all have sinned and there is none good but God.
And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.” Matthew 19:17 (ESV)
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Romans 3:23 (NLT)
Is this not true, we all needed to be taught to be good? What more important thing did we need to be taught other than how to be good? The Bible tells about the rich man that filled his barns with his plenty. He thought to himself he would build bigger barns and store up more. God took him, that night his soul was required. Luke 12:16-21. 
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? Mark 8:36
How many of us have seen the rich and what evil they did with their riches? Yet if they were taught to be good, would they not share it with others?  Or how about if we were very smart and perhaps even a genius, did we automatically know how to share our knowledge for the betterment of mankind?  I think Dennis Prager is right, perhaps there is nothing as important as teaching our children to be good. Think about it, what did you parents teach you above everything else?  God bless, LVZ.