If it is desirable that children be kind, appreciative and pleasant, then those qualities should be taught - not hoped for.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is the light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.
Proverbs 6:23

Teaching your children these qualities, should be taught at home. If they are to gain such qualities, home is the only place they will ever be exposed. Certainly not in our school systems, where alternate life styles, politically correct, greed, self indulgence, disrespect, individual rights without compassion for others and an opposite teaching about history, and evolution, prevail. We can not expect, with the amount of government control in our country today, that our children will be taught anything of moral, christian or quality values.
We are not to blame the teachers, but ourselves. We have stood by and watched our country go down hill. If we do not turn around and regain control of our government and place God back in our schools, pledge of allegiance, government, constitution, and on our currency. Then what can we gain by teaching our children to be kind, appreciative and pleasant?
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