Rudyard Kipling送给儿子12岁生日礼物的诗作，完美总结了为父者的期许。
摘录一段转增给聪儿的十六岁：
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man
my son!
