Doing my children a disservice or giving them a great blessing?

I am now an officially trained, full-on Girl Scout troop leader.  I was surprised that the former leader said she didn't want to split the girls up and would turn over leadership responsibilities to me and my co-leader DV.  


The past two weeks have been pretty darn stressful.  I agreed to write an article for a magazine on a Thursday afternoon, and on Saturday morning my uncle passed away.  So the following week was a combination of 1.attending wakes and funerals, 2. writing articles, and 3. trying to figure out all this Girl Scout business and get trained.  


With all this going on, I started thinking about what example I set for my children and what high expectations I will have of them as they grow older.  At ages 7, 4 and 2, I think my expectations are age-appropriate.  But I know full well that as they mature I will expect them to, "Say what they mean, and mean what they say."  


I will also expect them to follow these guidelines in living:

"Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you’re going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions."

— Maria Razumich-Zec

I had the thought that maybe my expectations are too high.  Isn't this a lot to put on a kid?  

But then it occurred to me that someone had the same expectations of me when I was young.  My parents were models of this behavior....if they said they were gonna do something, they followed through.  If they were going to do a job, they did it to the best of their ability.  The people who know my parents think highly of them because of their trustworthiness, their responsibility, their reliability.  I think the people who know me would likely say the same. 

And that is not at all too much to expect of my children.