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How to teach them this essential value. Pretty much every parent wants to raise kids who

turn out to be good people. Almost no father thinks I I'd love for my son to be rich but awful, or I'd love for my daughter

to be famous but vapid and cruel.

It's a given.

And yet, when you look at most of what we do and say as parents, especially as our kids

get older, it's clear that what we're actually encouraging and incentivizing

is for our kids to be successful. We want to hear how they did on their math test and whether they

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