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kids are helping me see life in a brand new way.
You know - it's wonderful way to be learning. Think for a
minute - what are your kids teaching you?
Are they teaching you anything?
Or are you too busy with your own agenda, like I was?
Gary told us last week how much his thinking has changed as
he contemplates bringing Joanna into a culture which is morally
falling apart. He caused us to think long and hard about that.
One thing my kids have caused me to think long and hard about
is my behaviour. I realised quite quickly that they don't
listen to a heck of a lot to what I say.
But
they sure take in every thing I do! Particulary if I'm doing
something I've just asked them not to do.
You know, their little eyes are watching us. I'm aware that
they are watching me and I'm a role model to them and I'm
building their character by my actions. I'm very much aware
that I am teaching them about love when I show them how I
love their mother, I teach them about honesty when they see
me take a lost purse to the police station, I teach them to
look after other people's property when I take Foodtown's
trolley back after putting the groceries in the car.
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teach them about integrity when I put my name and phone number
on a card and tuck it under the windshield of a car I've just
backed into and I teach them about my love for God and thankfulness,
not taking life for granted, our good health, each other,
a warm bed, when we pray together at bedtime.
Too many people these days are relying on institutions to
teach their kids right from wrong; too many are abdicating
their responsibility to surrogate parents in Daycare Centres,
and allowing peer groups to impart worldly values into their
children. Instead of doing the job themselves.
You can't raise your kids from the afar. I doubt if anyone
has ever said on his deathbed "I wish I'd spent more time
in the office". Another very simple message is this,"The best
thing you can give your children is time"
There is nothing profound in that.
(C)
Andy Bray
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