You know, my dad never talked to me about drugs, or smoking, or the birds and the bees. His talk on alcohol, delivered once when I was sixteen, was: "If you really feel like you need to drink, there is beer in the fridge. Don't take it outside the house, and your friends are not allowed to have any." (I suspect he was thinking specifically of _you_, by the way. :) )

But from the time I was about eight, I heard regularly about the importance of proper documentation of one's code, from flowchart and pseudocode through code comments and accompanying whitepapers. In specific and, as it would turn out, useful detail. I was the only third-grader in my school who had his own flowcharting template, let alone the skills to use one.

Doesn't *every* parent have that talk with their kids?