Other parents might offer different answers from my mother. “To serve God” would be the solution of the religiously minded, although there are as many gods to serve as there are ways to serve them. If you want to serve Buddha or Jesus, you might determine to be compassionate – but do people become compassionate just by insisting that they ought to? Or perhaps your definition of “good” might be by pursuing a jihad, as some British youngsters do. No, I think looking to God for the answer will not do.