If you want your children to make it .. you have to let them know that:

• You LOVE them, no matter what!
• You BELIEVE in them, no matter what!

I read this story in the "Reader's Digest" and I would like to share it with everybody

One day, a father took his two elementary-school age children for a ride in a pontoon boat. They were traveling down the river when suddenly the motor stopped. When the father looked behind him, he noticed something familiar about the red sweater tangled up in the propeller. His young son yelled, "Sherry fell in!" In horror, the father saw his little girl entwined in the propeller of the boat. She was submerged just beneath the surface of the water, looking straight into the eyes of her father and holding her breath.

He jumped into the water and tried to pull the motor up, but the heavy engine wouldn't budge. Time was running out. Desperately, the father filled his own lungs with air and dipped below the surface, blowing air into his daughter's lungs.

After giving her air three times, the father took a filet knife from his shocked son's hand. He quickly cut the red sweater from the propeller and lifted his daughter into the boat. Although she had survived, her deep cuts and bruises needed medical attention, so they rushed her to the hospital. When the crisis was over, the doctors and nurses asked the girl, "how come you did not panic?"

"Well, we've grown up on the river and my dad always taught us that if you panic, you die. Besides, I knew my daddy would come and get me."

Do your children know beyond the shadow of doubt that you would come and get them no matter what? If your son was busted in a drug raid would you go and get him? If your daughter got caught being a prostitute would you get your little girl?

Of course, once you come to their aid, they must face the consequences of their actions. But do they know that you believe in them no matter what they do