Rearing children is never easy. My worst nightmare is having to go back and do it again. Grandchildren are super. We love to have them visit. We can spoil them rotten, and in two or three days they go home!

I spend a considerable part of my week listening to parents worry about their children. Either they are lazy, or they are into heaven knows what. They are stupid, or too smart for their own good. They have no initiative and are couch potatoes, or you never know what they are going to do next. They are sullen and silent, or they mouth off all the time. Displays of love and patience don't seem to make any difference, nor do sternness and punishment.

There are children who are slow witted, and children whose self-proclaimed knowledge boggles the mind. A father once placed the following s…