The habits you build now might be the ones your kids pick up without being taught.

Behavior travels down through households without anyone intending it. Children copy what they watch on ordinary days, not what they are told on serious ones, which means the way you handle a bad mood, money or an apology is the actual curriculum. Most of it gets transmitted long before anybody thinks a lesson is happening.

Pick one habit you would be content to see repeated and work on it as if it were being observed, because eventually it will be. How you argue, how you rest, how you speak about your own mistakes. The practice is the teaching.