On rearing children

For those gen-Xers and before, you probably remember:  you rear children; you raise cattle.  Having three kids, I can tell you that sometimes it feels like rearing cattle.  An interesting quote I heard today from Dave Ramsey (financial personality) for which I do not recall the original attribution:  the goal is not to "raise good kids" but rather to raise good adults.  Mentoring our children now will hopefully lead to them being better husbands/wives, better citizens, better employees, and in general the type of people we want to interact with later.  If we all take of our parts now, a positive future will unfold later as a matter of consequence.