The Volokh Conspiracy - A Sweet and Wise Blessing To Give Your Children,

which I heard from my friend Fred Bernstein, who says it to his three-year-old twins: "May you be who you are, and may you be blessed in all that you are."

Like many such blessings, this one's merits go to the attitude it instills in the speaker, at least as much as in what it conveys to the target.

	[Eugene Volokh, January 5, 2006 at 3:12pm] Trackbacks A Sweet and Wise Blessing To Give Your Children, which I heard from my friend Fred Bernstein, who says it to his three-year-old twins: "May you be who you are, and may you be blessed in all that you are." Like many such blessings, this one's merits go to the attitude it instills in the speaker, at least as much as in what it conveys to the target.