As a parent, you can teach your kids many things. Not to touch a hot stove, look both ways before crossing a street and many other valuable lessons. You can even teach manners and how to interact with the world.
However, in life the biggest influence over your child might not be you, but the friends and people around them as they grow up; sometimes control you do not have. An influence that I pray every day is always a positive part of their lives.
This photo was taken on a rainy day as I was dropping my kids off at school... My son, jumps out of the car and starts to walk into school, his female friend RUNING up to him calling his name and yelling, come here under my umbrella so you don...