Values Are Caught ... And Taught

How the child was brought up and raised is the sum total of what he observed and see in his parents. And whatever values he had was influenced by them and will be "carried over" when he becomes an adult.

Children can't just show he is responsible or kind without having seen those act of kindness from their parents or someone else. They may have understood important concepts like working hard or saving for a rainy day or giving importance to finishing college and obeying rules ... without someone setting the example. Parents become a model-of-sort in their child's life, they must have done a lot of teaching and explaining and the child imbibes these values until they become the child's moral framework and architecture.