Hello 👋 friends, we will be discussing about CHILDREN AND THEIR ROLE MODEL
Parents should know the importance of who’s influencing their children and the influencer’s character. It’s true that the power of influence from Godly role models are strong and it should be purposeful to parents because it will help to shape their children behavior in the right way.
These are examples of how you can easily give godly role models to your children.
As Christians, we all want to shape the lives of our children in godly way and to achieve such, parents must take adequate measure by reading men/women of faith biographies to their children. Intentionally draw their attention and read it to them and be sure to have enough on your books shelves so when they grow up, they can easily choose and read.
We have numerous motivation books about men and women of faith, reading these types of books to them will challenge and inspire them to love God, and hearing the faith of these great men/women of God will build up faith in the children because faith comes by hearing the word of God.
Providing for the needs of the children is important but speaking positively and encouraging things about these men and women of faith is vital because God gave them the opportunity to become influencers or role models to the public. Intentionally praise your pastor, the choir master/mistress, the Sunday school teacher or even their school teacher. Let the children know how faithful these people are in their various places of work, the sacrifice time of their preparation and their love for God. Mention the characters worth emulating from these faithful men/women and advice the children to learn from them.
Another important factor is introducing and also giving them the opportunity to meet these men/women of faith. In their bedroom you can easily identify who the children choose as their role models because they always post their pictures on the wall, it could be an actor, musician or athlete but not all of their chosen role model falls into the category of godly role models. So it’s essential for parents to portray themselves as the first real role model to their children with godly characters.
There’s a family I know that always wanted their children role models to be missionaries because most times, they are faithful, have good characters and are always committed in serving the Lord. So they started by teaching their children a collection of missionary prayer card which will be given to these missionaries whenever they visit their church. So the children have the opportunity to meet these missionaries and give them the cards and they will pray for the children and later starts visiting, becomes friends and these missionaries shaped the lives of these children and the eldest child is a missionary/minister today.
The role of parents is help the children know that these people are normal, truthful, faithful and can easily influence their lives in godly way. These are simple things the parents can do to give their children godly role models. The children are definitely going to look up to others, so parents should do all they can to give their children the right role models to be looking up to.
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