From our friends Stan and Cheryl Schuermann over at 12PassagesForParents.com
Have you ever tried to put together a jigsaw puzzle without first seeing the picture on the box? Or, better yet, to put it together with no picture and with the pieces laid out upside down?
...By the time they (your children) leave your care and start their own family, they should know how the pieces fit together. YOU will have been to them the picture on the box.