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A Wall of Wisdom for my eldest daughter (help needed)
October 31, 2007 By: Lester Spence Category: black family, announcements

My daughter turns 13 next week. A teenager.

What my wife and I are interested in doing is building a “wall of wisdom”. A collection of ideas and sayings from people we’ve come across in our physical and virtual sojourn.

If you could tell a teenager one thing, what would it be? Because we’re actually building something we’d like whatever you write to be short enough to put on a note card of some sort.

Oh. Feel free to link to this…I’m interested in getting responses from as many people as I can.

As it turns out, the most important thing I had to get my daughter to understand, and the hardest, was "Your father loves you such that he won't kill you over a mistake, no matter how big you think it is." I don't know if that's the sort of thing he's looking for...