After an introductory meeting, a woman whom I had known from the first days of her practice came up to me and said: "You know what Justin did the other day?" 

Justin is her eldest son. I had watched him grow from a five year-old to a handsome young teenager. "What did he do this time?" I asked. 

She answered: "The school he goes to allows the children to go to a pizza place nearby to buy their lunches. As they cut through the alleyway there was a truck parked in the back full of pizzas. One of the boys said 'Look, free pizzas. We can take them and not have to pay for them.' 

"But Justin said: 'If we take those pizzas we might seem to get away with it, but because of cause and effect someone will take something of ours later on. Maybe just when we need it.' The boys decided that Justin was right so they paid for their pizzas." 

"Wow! Justin is smart for a boy his age," I remarked. 

Justin's mom said: "You never know how much sinks in." 

The Japanese have a saying: "You learn by watching your mother's back." It means that children learn by watching what their mothers do.

Justin's mom's back taught him well.