Hello Everyone! I want to encourage someone today to remain hopeful. This weekend I heard a parent say, ‘you can raise your children the right way and they still turn out doing wrong things’. This statement (can) be true in a sense. When we are hopeful the statement above is not completely true. Hope help us look beyond where our children might be at the present state, and believe that he/she will not always be at the same place. Hope helps us to continue to believe that all the past investments that we made in our child/children will eventually manifest itself later. Hope reminds us of all the tools that we spend time putting into his/her ‘tool box’, will get used at some point in time. Hope help us to continue to see the greatness in our children even when they are not doing so great. It is a challenge to be hopeful, but this also depends on what our hope as parents is built on. We need someone greater, bigger to put our ‘hope’ in. Someone that we know has never let’s us down and never went back on His word. When we begin to hope in a person like this, then we can definitely continue to ‘Hope‘ that all of our investments will pay off someday. I hope that you remain hopeful in the process. For further assistance please leave a message at janellestuart@parentsmakinganinvestment.com. Thank You.