The Crab and His Mother

All parents are teachers, our first teachers, for better or worse.

A mother crab and her son went scurrying over the sand.  The mother chastised her child: "Stop walking sideways!  It's much more becoming to stroll straightforward."

And the young crab replied, "I will, Mother dear, just as soon as I see how.  Show me the straight way and I'll walk in it behind you."

Words are important, but there is nothing like the power of example.