Once you are a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future [memo]

Now we're just here to be memories for our kids.
Once you are a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.

-- Cooper (Interstellar)

The attitude that you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from, more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

-- Jim Henson