1. The fact that you care means things will probably turn out pretty well.
2. In connection with becoming a good person, kids seem to follow your example more than anything you can tell them.
3. "One doesn't live long enough to learn how to be a good parent." - Norbert Wiener
4. You can't be as scared as me. I will be a parent of a newborn again in about two months, and at a fairly advanced age. My first child was born in the first year of the Reagan administration.
Ha! My WIFE was born a week before Reagan was elected. Life goes on.
3. "One doesn't live long enough to learn how to be a good parent." - Norbert Wiener>>
My parents had nine kids. "And it was only when we got to you two [me and my younger sister, the last 2] that we really felt we had any idea what we were doing."
(My dad also said that each of his three daughters were more trouble than all of his six sons combined. Be Forewarned! :-))
Congratulations!