As a parent, it's funny: You still have your own ambitions and dreams, but you find yourself subordinating your goals to try to ensure that your kids will be successful.
You're looking for the right habits. It's the point of my free ebook, How to Raise Successful Kids (now in its 7th edition), which you can download here, and it's been the subject of significant study at Harvard, Stanford, and other top universities.
Here are nine of the key choices their studies suggest parents need to make.
1. Choose to stay on top of them.
High on this list for a reason is the idea that kids who have success later in life have parents who stay on top of them. They remind them of their values and the things they do and don't want them to do. They nag, if you must use that term.