Bring up the boy and girl alike with the understanding that life is not generally soft, is not generally easy, that there will be plenty of rough times, and that what they have to show is not the spirit that avoids difficulties and flinches from them, but the spirit which overcomes them.
Roosevelt advocates for raising children with an understanding of life's difficulties and the importance of resilience.
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