I notice you have 17 pages of replies! Just goes to show you the reaction you get when you mention mothers and advise being given. It strikes a chord is us all. My mother would sometimes look at something I was doing and say to me "Is that the way I taught you?" I would look her straight in the eye and reply - "No Mom, but that is the way I do it now." It usually worked.
Folding the binding is FINE!