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 they are with you yet they don´t belong to you.

You may given 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.

From The Prophet, Kahil Gibran