Our children...

We want more for our children than healthy bodies. We want our children to have lives filled with friendship and love and high deeds. We want them to be eager to learn and willing to confront challenges. We want them to grow up with confidence in the future, a love of adventure, a sense of justice, and courage enough to act on that sense of justice. We want them to be resilient in the face of setbacks and failures that growing up always brings (p.6).

Seligman, MEP, Reivich, K., Jaycox, L., & Gillham, J. (1995). The optimistic child. Sydney: Random House.