There is a song called ”Children will Listen” from the musical ”Into the Woods”. It is a song sung to the father who had no father and is afraid because he doesn’t have an example of how to raise his own child.
Careful the things you say, children will listen
Careful the things you do, children will see and learn
Children may not obey, but children will listen…
Stephen Sondheim
I tend to turn that around, and wonder what it was that I did that caused my children to display certain characteristics. What could I have done differently? What did I learn from my parents and unknowingly passed on to my children? Will they pass those behaviours onto their own children?
Reflections 
I always liked that song.
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