My parents have imprinted their midwestern values (or so Iike to believe) in my parenting style — whether that is my father’s “man in the mirror” framework for success in terms of career aspirations, fatherhood and building blocks of a healthy marriage or my mother’s sense of fairness but not equalness in raising her children. It is wonderful to spend year 70 with them and my extended family as their birthdays are exactly one day apart.