Based on modern brain research, Hans-Otto Thomashoff illustrates with twelve vivid case studies how parents can be good role models for their children. The human brain learns primarily from lived experiences. Translated to child-rearing, this means that everything children experience and encounter with their parents shapes their own thinking and behavior. If parents want their children to lead a happy and successful life, they should particularly focus on demonstrating appropriate values and behaviors—during the time with babies and toddlers as well as with elementary school children and teenagers in puberty.