The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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I’d like them to inherit my optimism.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗
Shortly after my terminal diagnosis, I knew that one of my biggest priorities was to create memories for my children. Chloe and Logan are both so young that it's likely they'll have no direct memories of me. Dylan is the oldest, and at 5 (turns 6 in December), his memories are likely to be fuzzy. Hence the engineering question: What would make for the sharpest, most visceral memory, esp. for a kid who loves animals? Answer: go for a Dolphin Swim!
Resilience, courage and kindness, as compassionate points to follow.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
Compassion, resourcefulness and resilience form a rounded good person. So that’s what I’d like to leave my children and grandchildren.
A full-time driver/butler/chef.
Trolling, meanness and male violence.
I was very sorry to stop at two children – I would have liked to have had a third – and I am very sorry to have got divorced.
Not for a long time.
I’m a lucky woman – I was walking in the rain yesterday and was really happy.
I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut.
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