1. HOPING THEIR CHILDREN WILL DO BETTER THAN THEMSELVES

You experienced ladies, aren't you happy when a passerby says your child is a million times better looking than you are? You will be tickled pink (Laughter). That means the mother is a million times worse looking. Wouldn't that be so? Which mother in the world would take that compliment as meaning that she is the one who is a million times uglier than her child? Which mother would even think like that? All mothers are happy under the circumstances, those are mothers' sentiments everywhere. Mothers are just happy with the results.

If a family wants the children to do worse than their father, the household will surely fall, not prosper. Even if the father is president of the country, if his children don't do as well, the family will eventually bite the dust in a few generations. So, when the child says to his father, "I don't believe I should do worse than you," then the father must not criticize the decision. Rather, he should wholeheartedly agree with the view.