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Show Page 34 A THE HERALD, Provo. Utah. Wednesday. November i. r amilv Lite Edition 1978 Children Learn by Imitation, Copy What REV. GEOFFREY G. NELSON, pastor American Fork Presbyterian Church "Monkey see, monkey do," is an old expression that points lo a reality of life. It is not demeaning but reflects that many of us learn by imitation. This is certainly the case for children as any of the parents among us can point out Children learn by imitation and they imitate what they see in the home, the home being where they first encounter the world. We can see this as we watch small children playing and acting out the way they see their parents handle the world. As parents many of us can see or remember our parents when we behave certain ways towards our children Many is the experience I have had where I am doing something with my By children and suddenly I remember doing those very same things with my parents when i was a child As a parent I am imitating the way my parents acted towards me. Parents as well as children are great imitators Religion of religious values are taught the same way. The way we live as adults will give our children their orientation to God and the world more than what we say to them The expression is Monkey see, Monkey do, not Monkey hear. Monday do. Our religion is what we live much more than what we say If money or material goods are more important than religious things, the children around us will learn those as our true religious values. We can try to set one particular time aside to teach religion in the home but we are fools if we think that will bt the way m which our find warmth and comfort A place where they can be real, without the children will learn about our taith. Our faith is passed on not only by pressures of the outside world, preswhat we say about religion but also by sure to succeed and compete A hurne should be a place of rest, a what we say and fee! about everything haven, a shelter That is what God is Our attitude towards our neighbors, M wfhn c iMir ill i hp dvuvw for us when we need it and so we ought lun.1, jj'niitij. yui in economics, and all eise will be obvious to provide that for those in our home as to our children From these attitudes well In addition to being a place of shelter our children will learn our religious values as much as. if not more than, a home should be a place of disiciplme Here again we teach our faith in God from anything else The love which God has tor use is We know God lives us and accepts us by also teit or defined by the experiences his giving his own Son. Jesus to us. Vet in the home. Through the work of Eric we are called to repentance within Erickson and others we know that if a Gd s love and we are judged for our child learns to trust the world as an in- wrongdoings. So too we are to love fant, he or she is inclined to learn that those around us but not with a love that God can be trusted too. is entirely uncritical. We are also to This idea carries right through the discipline ourselves and our children life and growth process of children and Again our children will learn a certain amount of discipline by seeing how much of this takes place in the home Hopefully home can be a place where we discipline ourselves But as parents everyone, parents and children, can we have great responsibility to dis Home Is in and often the choice mav be between God of one's family-Jesu- cipline our children until they ar able to discipline themselves Parents need to set limits for their children and boundaries for their behavior The goal of this is to raise up children who will be able to discipline themselves This is not always easy for parents yet we cannot avoid it if we really kne our children The home functions as a school of faith when its graduates, our sons and daughters, are able to choose for themselves and make responsible choices and decisions When this comes to religious values wp can only hope that they choose the values which we hold We cannot force our values upon them but must allow them to pick and choose from what we believe and make up their own religious values in their life of faith This too is not always easv s warns us about this in Matthew This can be a painful situation for both parents and children but eachch must choose what is true for nim or herself 10 34-3- In family life and parenting we adults can learn how imperfect we are and how in need of God s grace we are. W e also receive that grace and forgineness through Jesus Christ and our lives can show that to our children. A child can feel the parents attitude towards God and parents teach them in them in that way. The home reJly is a school of faith. The parents learn about God's love and pass that on to the children The children learn about God and grow to love and teach about God as well Monkey see. Monkey do. Vacationing at Home With Family Important Spending holidays with her family rewarding experience for Jill Millward. a BYl' senior in business education. "J really enjoy the way we celebrate our holidays as a family," Miss Millward said. She noted that Thanksgiving is a time for family togetherness. "We spend Thursday eating, and playing games," she said "Last Thanksgiving, all the kids brought their own games that they wanted to plav. 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