> I would teach your children the value of not caring what other people think. I used to care very much about not caring what others thought of me. It didn't

> I would teach your children the value of not caring what other people think. I used to care very much about not caring what others thought of me. It didn't work out terribly well for me — neither professionally nor socially (nor, to be honest, spiritually). Eventually I started to care about others, and I've found that my professional & social lives have improved immensely. Man is a social animal; he lives in a society. Not to learn how to navigate it is to doom oneself to spending a lot of time wandering in a maze.