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this is a very important post.  thank you for starting it.

I liked very much reading St. Bosco, who care for boys.  Our Lady inspired him, directed him.

Two points Our Lady made, that I recall the most:  Children need interaction with parent.  To play basketball, cooking together, just doing things together that makes for conversation, laughing and being serious.  This interaction is important, so child and parent get to know each other.  Our Lady gave Don Bosco a dream of the future:  teachers standing off and students playing ball.  Don Bosco asked, "why are the teachers not interacting?"  Our Lady said, "this is the future, that you see."

Our Lady also said it is very important who interacts with your student, that is friends.  They need good friends, beware of their company!

Children need parents who live their faith.  It shows.

Thank God we still have sacraments/Precious Blood.  It is So Saving!

I listened to a friend, yesterday, remembering the ways of New Order, that are nauseating.  Grown men saying, "We go to the Saturday mass for Sunday, "to get it over with!"  Nasty!  Grown men wearing shorts.  

I am not against men, for women can do and think the same.

I do look up to Captain Kangaroo.  He would end his show saying," Give the children what they want most, Your Time".  I took this very serious as a mother.  Kids want to go to the park, then let's do it when we get some chores done and finish when we return.  Like a doctor once told my mother of 9 children, let the dishes go, find time to relax, say that rosary, read some meditations.  

Let me give you a couple examples of my own personal development.

Initially I thought that I would never allow my girls to wear ANY makeup.  I considered it to be wanted by girls only for impure purposes.  I grew up with 3 brothers and was out of the house when my one young sister got older (she was 8 when I was gone).  And my mother never wore makeup ... not out of principle, but just because she never felt like it.  I have four daughters now, and both the older ones, when they hit puberty, developed acne (inherited through their Mom's side).  And I was shocked by the degree to which they were derided by their Traditional Catholic female friends.  They asked if they could wear some stuff to cover up, and of course I let them.  Nothing heavy, but just enough to make them feel not "repugnant".  Imagine if I had stuck to my guns, as some Traditional Catholic parents had done, and they spent years and years feeling "repulsive" to other people.  That would cause severe emotional and psychological scars for a girl.  So I came to the realization that there's nothing inherently wrong with a girl just wanting to feel pretty.  And I also realized that 99% of the time, it was in relation to their FEMALE peers, that they wanted to feel pretty, and not because they were trying to "ensnare" some boy.  So as long as I don't sense any impure motives, I let them wear some light makeup, just so they can feel pretty.  And I let them wear nice clothes (provided they're not in any way immodest) ... instead of imposing the "Little House on the Prairie" look that many Traditional Catholics require of their girls.

I know an SSPX priest who used to say women who did not wear makeup were forcing us ALL into a penance. Lol. God bless him for his sanity!
Ladies, please wear makeup!