The best parenting advice I ever received: Make a list of all of the principles and values that you want your child to live by, then go out and actually embody them yourself. If you want your child to treat your wife like a queen, you’d better treat your wife like a queen. If you want your child to embrace delayed gratification, you’d better embrace delayed gratification. If you want your child to do hard things, you’d better do hard things. Children learn by absorbing. You do not teach a child something by telling them how to do it—you teach them through showing them how it’s done. Rule: Live the truth you want your child to embrace.