I was looking at the motivation site and something occured to me when I read one of the posts. Not only do our kids learn from our good examples, but they learn from our mistakes as well. I am very open with my son about the mistakes I've made in my personal life and as a parent. As an only child, he knows that any mistakes I make are going to be just with him and that I don't have the "benefit" of having learned them with older brothers and sisters. He has come to understand how you can learn from mistakes and that taking responsibility for them is really important.