Leading by example, Part 2

Tell your kids, and more importantly, show them, that they have one primary job—to get as much education as they possibly can. One of the most important things I think parents can do for their children is to make education a priority. Even if you have not completed college yourselves, or even if you have far less education, by esteeming a university degree, you show your children that education is a priority. That could mean something as simple as a fourth-grade book report or a high school chemistry lab write-up. When your children know that school is important to you, regardless of how much you actually completed yourselves, you will encourage them to be good students and to devote themselves to their studies without your looking like hypocrites.