All Children are a Blessing ... ???

This is a current picture of one of my 11 … yup … eleven grand children. I’ve only ever seen 2 of them.

Reminds me of Confucius …

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On this basis all of my children are degenerate and unworthy.

Yet … Confucius goes on to say …

First the context … apparently one day Confucius’s grandson … in a conversation with his grandfather … mentioned how he had internalized this particular ‘lesson’ … of all the lessons he had learned from his grandfather. Confucius was elated … replying

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Children are both a blessing and a curse for many reasons on both accounts. For instance, children teach us to improve ourselves for both sakes, a blessing, and children remind us when we have not yet learned enough growth, a curse in the painful reminding.