| Your Job as a Role Model | | | | are taught. |
| | | | What is the take home message? The main thing |
| A certain educator was once asked at what point | | | | for you to realize is that you have far more |
| should a parent begin to prepare for child raising. | | | | influence on your child than you probably realize. |
| "How old are you?" the educator inquired. | | | | Your child is going to pattern himself after you. |
| "Twenty-three." | | | | That is how nature set it up. Your job as a parent |
| "You should begin twenty-three years ago." | | | | is to be the best role model that you can be. |
| What is the message? The single most important | | | | True, it is hard, but that is the way it is. |
| thing a parent can do to educate a child is to | | | | The following is a story I heard recently that |
| provide the child with a good role model. A parent | | | | brings out the extent to which your child learns |
| has to work a whole lifetime becoming the type | | | | from your actions. |
| of person that he wants his child to become. | | | | A certain kindergarten teacher once warned a |
| The most important people in the world in the | | | | group of parents to be careful how they behave |
| child's eyes are his parents. They are his first and | | | | in front of their children. |
| most important teachers. The behavior of a child's | | | | "By the way your children play in school," she said. |
| parents leaves a permanent impression in the | | | | "I know which of you treat each other |
| child's subconscious mind. Why is this so? The | | | | respectfully. I know which of you use foul |
| reason is that the most reliable source of priorities | | | | language at home. I know everything about how |
| and values in a child's eyes is his parents. Children | | | | you behave in your home by the way your child |
| have an innate trust in their parents. They feel | | | | plays, talks, and behaves." |
| that everything their parents say and do is the | | | | Remember, you might think that everything that |
| true and proper way to behave. | | | | goes on in your home behind closed doors is |
| We all wish our children would do what we say | | | | hidden from the world, but it is not. Your child |
| and not what we do. However, this is not how | | | | sees everything. Your child is going to take your |
| the mind of a child works. The intellect of a child is | | | | behavior and broadcast it to the world. Make sure |
| undeveloped. As a result, children function an | | | | that what he is transmitting is something that you |
| emotional level, absorbing more from what they | | | | want the world to see. |
| see and hear around them than from what they | | | | |