“... The modern world boasts of the enticing door which says: everything is permitted. It ignores the narrow gate of - discernment and renunciation. I am speaking to especially you, young Christians.... Your life is not an endless series of open doors! Listen to your heart! Do not stay on the surface, but go to the heart of things! And when the time is right, have the courage to decide! The Lord is waiting for you to put your freedom in his good hands.”
Pope John Paul II

1. Develop your relationship with Christ and impart a desire for discipleship in the lives of your children.
2. Live your vocation to marriage out as fully as you can. 
3. Speak of the influential priests and religious in your Life. 
4. Provide opportunities for your children to speak with priests and religious. 
5. Pray for your children’s vocations that they may understand their call, and place them In the care of the Blessed Mother (especially in praying the Rosary). 
6. Help your children develop a wide range of activities and discern what gives them joy and at what they are good. 
7. Speak of your children responding, showing your support of them without pushing them. 
8. Instill in your children a desire to serve and a proper understanding of stewardship. 
9. Inspire a heroic life of virtue in your child by reading the lives of the saints and encouraging moral choices. 
10. Develop a sense of the sacred and transcendent in your child, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful,- which will reveal the Truth.

Source:  Diocese of Winona-Rochester