Children are not little adults. They"re made differently. They work differently. How much of what they finally become is determined by genetics and the random process of life? How much is determined by the guiding wisdom, or lack of wisdom, of their parents? Here are the thoughts, brief and simple, of a couple of parents, thoughts gained from personal experience in child-raising and from the experiences of other parents. "Knowledge is the parent of love," wrote Julius and Augustus Hare, "wisdom, love itself."