Parents, you are the sculptures of modern generations. The Leonardo Divinci’s, the Michael Angelo’s, the Salvador Dali’s, the Pablo Picasso's of new generations. It is what parents preach that defines the nature of our society. There are other factors of course, but what parents drill into the minds of their young children becomes the cornerstone of what their children will achieve.

If a child is born to a home that is destitute, and that parent drills motivation, dreams and inspiration into that child’s life, then that child absorbs those thoughts and those thoughts become his or her own. The child starts to absorb the expectations and literally starts to shape his or her universe around the concepts, anecdotes and paradigms that his or her parents have created. The ideas are seeds that soon germinate, then sprout to become glorious plants, flowers and foliage. On the contrary, though, what is learned in an environment of scarcity will remain under the constraints of scarcity. The paradigm of scarcity will be absorbed in the homes where families try, not only to nickel and dime, but also to teach their children that life is hard and that it is just as hard to make something out of themselves.

The truth is that children are absolutely observant, they are sponges absorbing the complexities of life. When there are negative influences conditioning the young minds of children, then complexes start to develop. Children start to lose sight of their creativity, they lose their rapture for that which is magical about life and they start to see life in the same mundane patterns that their parents see life. It is an emotional struggle that many children face as they go through life trying to detach, all of the time, from their feelings. Children often learn that the world is untrustworthy, and that their parents are poor guides on a journey of self-discovery.

With that said, the minds of children are malleable. They are open to be molded, shifted, adapted, formed, influenced and defined. These are the minds of the future. These are the minds that will configure algorithms of great design, these are the minds that will craft new technology, modern engineering, elaborate art, constructive literature, contemporary mediums for expression, politics, medicine, law and a plethora of other things. These are the minds that will shape the future as we know it. That is why it is so important to encourage so many young people to develop, not only themselves, but also their minds. The intelligence we can help instill resides in our ability to teach young minds how to be more accepting, more open-minded, more creative and more imaginative toward the world they live in. This is a calling for not one parent, nor a group of parents, but all parents to instill such intricacies of detail to the masterpiece they are designing: the future of mankind. I implore you to continue designing with loving hearts, open minds and creative splendor as your child is sure to be part of the events that mark so vividly the pages of that which we call history.