I'm John Fuller and today we're talking about how to model a godly behavior for your kids.

It's not always easy. I'm joined by Dr. Danny, who's in charge of the parenting team here. And Danny, our kids, like it or not, are going to mimic my behavior. So there are moments when,

I get cut to the heart and I really am bothered by that. There are other moments I get a little encouraged I guess because I did something right and they did something right and they did something right.

How do we handle all this?

Yeah, it's interesting to see our kids mimic certain behaviors in us.

And sometimes it surprises and you're going, oh, yeah, that's part of me.

Right there I'm seeing.

Don't like what I'm seeing. They naturally, their brain just naturally mimic the people they're closest to.

So what research has shown is that five or four or five, six closest people in a person's life are going to be the people that we tend to

imitate.

So the five closest people in your child's life just kind of rounded to that number are going

to have the greatest influence on who they become

and they begin to mirror those behaviors in their life.

And we just have these mere neurons.

There are about 200 million of them,

and we tend to mirror people that we're with and that's empathy. It's called empathy.

We mirror one another and we get into a dance of imitation with each other to connect with each other.

It's a dance we have as human

beings and we do it more so with the people we're most frequently with and the

people we feel safest with we begin to develop develop that closer rhythm and dance.

I still remember driving with my son Alex, he was about seven, eight years old and he

just out of the blue. So okay I don't want to become Michael Jordan anymore

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