What's the Ideal Situation for Parenting?

As a parent, you can be a model for emulation. What you say matters, but it doesn't say as much matter as much as what you do. You want to bring your words and your actions into alignment - that's part of the development of wisdom. There are great parallels between the mesopotamian creation account and the first part of the creation account in genesis. It isn't obvious what the temporal sequence was, but imagine there was a pool of stories in the middle east that were of indefinite age, tens of thousands of years. Each of them were developed in a slightly different way, although the themes underneath were similar....