Be the Person You Want Your Kids to Become

This week's reading led me to one powerful sentence.

Parenting experts spend a lot of time telling people what to tell their kids. But the research shows that what you say has very little impact on how kids turn out. In other words, my appeals to my teenagers were mostly wasted because it doesn’t matter very much what you tell them. What does matter for their development and well-being as a parent is your…