Quick but insightful article by Tim Kimmel about leaving our kids a legacy by teaching them real life lessons:
I call this a "designed dilemma." It's creating a situation or an environment in which children are forced to focus on their needs as well as draw conclusions about their lives.A loving legacy must be transferred, not just given. It must be embraced and appropriated into the core of our children's hearts. We can't be satisfied with modeling (as important as that is). We must develop lessons for our children that compel them to wrestle with (and therefore remember) critical truths.
Designed dilemmas lend strong support to one of the most worthy of all ambitions: Raising kids who turn out right.
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