1. Responsibility begins in small things, and it should be timed well.

2. Children must learn to get along with others and to resolve and manage conflict on their own.

3. Everyone lives somewhere. We need to take care of that place.

4. It's a big and sometimes uncertain world, and our children need to know how to navigate it safely.

5. We must use our time wisely.

6. We need to manage our work and living space wisely.

7. Things break and need maintenance. The more we can learn to do on our own, the more self-reliant we will be.

8. Money: either we learn to handle it or it will handle us.

9. Each of us has only one body, we need to learn to take care of it.

10. A brain is a valuable thing. We should aim to make it work at peak performance.

11. If God is not the center of our life, it will ultimately be unsatisfying.

12. The more decisions we make, the better decision makers we become.

13. We can all develop and nourish creativity.

14. Celebrate, rejoice and be glad! This day is all we have.