III. The Duties of Family Members

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Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They
bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness,
forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. the
home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an
apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery – the
preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to
subordinate the “material and instinctual dimensions to interior and
spiritual ones.”³¹ Parents have a grave responsibility to give
good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own
failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct
them:

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team

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