Looking into the mirror
Posted: September 19, 2009Do you want to see what kind of men and women your children will grow up to be? Take a look into the mirror.
A wise man once said, “The footsteps a child follows are often those that the father thought we covered up.” How true that is. There are facts we can pass on to our children and skills we can teach; but how our children really learn is by watching us and observing our every move; by absorbing what we do and who we are.
Someone once said, ” Values are not taught to kids; they are caught by them. ” They are picked up routinely through the subtle influences of simply being together the day.
A poem by Herbert Parker sums it up best. : ” To get his goodnight kiss he stood beside my chair one night, and raised an eager face to me, a face with love alight. And as I gathered in my arms the son God gace to me, I thanked the lad being good and hoped he always be.
” His little arms crept around my neck and then I heard him say, four simple words I cannot forget ; four words that make me pray. They turned a mirror on my soul, on secrets no one knew. They startled me, I hear them yet. He said, “ I’ ll be like you.”
Do you still think what you do as a mother or father doesn’t really matter ? It does. Believe me, it does.
