"Man has three friends on whose company he relies.
First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts.
Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there.
The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave."
When my youngest son was little, I would tell him blue boy a dragon was with him at all times and would keep him safe. My son is a father himself now and still believes in blue boy.