-Your children see everything. They miss nothing. Their eager eyes, their lithe little bodies, constantly flit around, roving and scanning, noticing every details of their parents' lives. Children, it seems, are wired this way: to watch how adults, and most of all their parents, go about the business of living.
-Children perceive confident, adult-level strength in you, and this awareness leads them to respect you. Children must, above all, respect their parents, and (we cannot stress this enough) all respect derives from perception of strength.
-You are teaching more about the virtues, indeed about yourself, when you scarcely realize it. Your snatches of conversation, your reactions to events (good and bad), your assessments of people and your dealings with them, your earnest personal prayer, your exertion in work and play, your comments on the news, your humor, whatever angers or delights you, even the look in your eyes: all these details sink into your children's minds and hearts. In fact, what your children overhear at home is at least as important as what you say to them directly, often much more so.
-Parents cannot teach character effectively unless they first set example for their children.
-Virtue is a habit of living rightly. And all habits are built by repeated practice. You, as a parent, must lead your children to act, to learn by doing.
-Every single day, the children are forming permanent habits. The question for parents is: which ones?
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