How do I raise my children to keep the faith and not grow indifferent to it?

I wish I had the secret formula for you, but I do not. I have eleven children. Some I thought would turn out demonic turned out to be the best Catholics in the family, and others I thought were prime candidates I cannot even get to talk about God. All you can do is try every day, teach love, and never give up. I have learned after many years that it is not so much how you fight the battle, though that is important, but who lasts the longest. The one who sticks with it, who has not been set back one iota and still holds the same faith, maybe a little more gentle about it but not changed one idea, that is what matters. What happens is they reach twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty, and all of a sudden they say, what dad and mom said is right, because now they are raising their own children. It comes back to roost. It could be at fifteen, twenty, thirty, or fifty, but they are going to realize what you taught them is correct, because now they have to put it into practice. Of my eleven children none have gone off into immorality, drinking, or sex; they are all moral, though one is real close to God, another mediocre, and another you never know what you will get. Teenagers especially are the most skeptical group of human beings I have ever seen. They are dealing with their own problems, so they are not going to be very nice to you; it is a tough life to be a teenager, when you are not a toddler and not an adult and your cerebral cortex has not grown fully to make these complicated decisions. Do not give up, and do not let them make you think you taught the faith sub par. Keep doing the same thing day in and day out, and you will see the fruits, maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will come.