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Are you preparing them to answer the call?

At some point, they're going to get it. Perhaps they'll hold elected office.

Perhaps they'll witness something unethical at work. They'll enter the terrifying, tempting world.

Maybe they'll be a scientist pursuing a controversial or unorthodox idea. Maybe they'll have a dream

for a new business. Maybe they'll be an athlete

considering a political stand that will jeopardize their career or their endorsements.

The exact circumstances don't matter. What matters is that one day they're going to get the call

for courage. To each, Winston Churchill would say there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents.

What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for what could have been their finest hour?

It's more accurate to say that life has many of these moments, many such taps on the shoulder, to serve, to take a risk, to run towards danger while others run away, to do a thing that people tell them is impossible.

They will have many reasons to think that this is the wrong thing to do.

They will be pressured to put their

dreams out of their mind. Fear will make itself felt? Will they let this prevent them from

answering the call? Will they leave the phone ringing? Will their finest hour pass them by,

like a ship in the night? What a tragedy that would be. Our job as parents is to make sure this doesn't happen to our kids.

Our job is to help them inch closer and closer to doing what they were put here to do,

to being who they were meant to become. We are supposed to prepare them for when the phone rings,

for when they get tapped on the shoulder, because the one thing we know for certain is that the call is going

to come. Will they be prepared to answer? And look, if you haven't heard about it yet, this is also the

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