 Treat everyone’s children as if they were your own. It is paramount that children are brought up not to hate others.
- Make your children proud, strong and self-confident: of their culture, of their family roots and traditions, and of their religion, as only self-confident children can be tolerant to others as they look at the world around them without fear.
- Help your children learn other languages, especially the majority language where you live as a minority, as foreign languages are the important door for the understanding of other cultures. Children should also learn the mother languages of their family fluently to stay connected with their roots.
- Avoid the dangers of an overly materialistic world and its moral relativism – i.e. its lack of basic, binding moral values – as this can lead to children without respect for others.
- Connect your children with the roots of your religion and a positive picture of their world, where they are responsible as the next generation of leaders and doers to make our globe a better place.
- Teach your children that a diverse world with different religions, races and ethnic minorities is enriching and that the idea of a homogeneous world with only one religion or one race would be a severe loss for them and all of us.
- Invite children of other religions, races and ethnic groups to play with your children. Teach your children to accept them as friends and not exclude them.
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