Character is ultimately who we are expressed in action, in how we live, in what we do, and so the children around us know: they absorb and take stock of what they observe, namely us, - we adults living and doing things in a certain spirit, getting on with one another in various ways. Our children add up, imitate, file away what they've observed and so very often later fall in line with the particular moral counsel we wittingly or quite unself-consciously have offered them. ~Robert Coles, Child Psychiatrist, Author
