I believe our first goal was to get them to be caring and inquisitive, caring about their fellow travelers on this planet and inquisitive about what makes this planet work.
We also wanted them to be competent critical thinkers, going along with the inquisitiveness, and to question authority in a healthy way.
We wanted them to see the genuine equality in all people.
Healthy self-respect was a chief concern, enabling a healthy respect for others.
We genuinely tried to be gender-neutral in our child rearing, but our oldest, a boy, seemed to naturally gravitate to Batman and such things even though there were no toy guns, etc., in the house. Our middle child, a girl, picked up a broom as her first toy. The youngest, also a girl, was influenced by her older sister.
I could go on and on, but I think I’ll leave it with the following:
Our oldest is leaving the nest soon to start on his life. The girls are still in school and excelling in different areas. It’s all very gratifying.