Any parent would always hope that was the case, joec. We definitely gave them a lot of guidance based upon our own experiences as well as the experiences of their grandparents, and other role models in their lives, etc.

Everyone in both my wife’s family and my family have always been extremely passionate and very clear about the direction we wanted our lives to go (identifying and evaluating our options every step of the way) so the environment in which our kids grew up was, no doubt, a contributing factor in their success.