To learn is simply to allow something to be done to you, and to be quickly persuaded is natural for those who are less able to offer resistance.
—Plutarch
We have to start teaching our kids the important things early, even when it seems like they are way too young, because if we wait, they’ll be able to fight us off. They’ll have the words and the resolve to resist the lessons that we know they will need in life for the struggles they can’t see coming.
We have to get them while they’re still young and impressionable. We have to push past their reservations. Of course they would rather play video games. Of course it’s more fun to goof off. But now is the time. Before they can fight us off with their full determination. Before the cement is completely dry.