Khalil Jibran

Your Children are not Your
Children They are the sons and daughters
of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not
from you,
And though they are with you
yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but
not your thoughts,
For they have their own
thoughts.
You may house their bodies but
not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house
of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even
in your dreams. You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like
you.
For life goes not backward nor
tarries with yesterday.
By khalil jibran