"Your children, though, are not just a task of parenting that can be completed and checked off your ‘big biblical things to do’ list. They are God’s gift and reward to you in this life, and they are in turn your gift to the world. But there is an even greater eternal reward to parenting.
Through your children, God has given you the privilege of passing on your faith and the truths of Scripture 'so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.'"
Read more about this in Educating the Wholehearted Child.
