Our kids are looking to us. They're not telling us that they are; they just are.
You may be thinking, "Yeah, right. You don't know my kids. They don't care what I think."
You're wrong.
As adults, we're pretty crappy at communicating. Our kids have unfortunately learned that from us and we're left to deal with what we've made. Just because your kids don't ask to have dinner with you, just because they don't tell you that they want to hear you say that you love them, just because they don't seem like they want you to care about the things that they care about does NOT mean that they don't feel that way.
They are watching you. They are watching me. The question is, are they seeing that we care or are they just hearing about all of the things that they could do better?