Children See, Children Do

During Jordan's baptism class we were shown a short video clip and the simple message is “ Children see, children do”. It really sinks the message of parenthood even deeper into our hearts. For instance, if parents smoke, the likelihood of their offspring doing so is very high, if we curse and swear, they too will follow, and if we are inconsiderate, rude and unkind, guess who are closing watching us? The minister was reminding us parents that if we don't walk the talk our kids will know . I remember many years ago, a friend commented to me how a mutual friend was always verbally abusive to her maid and what had shocked my friend was that this mutual friend's daughter who was not more that 5 yrs old was equally abusive to the maid too. Guess who she was imitating??

I love my littlest nephew, Asher. He is clearly modelling the adults around him. He reprimands his sister Faith in true adult fashion. Even the intonation of his voice and his body gesture is perfect .

Let us all be reminded that in the family of God we as His children have Jesus the perfect One to whom we are to model our lives after. He has set us an example to follow. When we follow after Him we will be better models for our children.