{"id":1724,"date":"2009-11-20T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2009-11-20T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T02:38:13","slug":"mr-pretend-friday-october-20-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/mr-pretend-friday-october-20-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Pretend Friday October 20, Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jake

Jake and Trisha playing pretend on a phone<\/p><\/div>\n

“Hello, Mr. Pretend are you there?\u00a0 Yes, it’s Trisha and Jake!\u00a0 Yep we are here how are you doing today?\u00a0 We are great. Thanks for calling!\u00a0 Have a great day and we will call ya back tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

I love listening to my children talk on the phone to Mr. Pretend.\u00a0 Grandpa started it years ago.\u00a0 He carries on a conversation with Mr. Pretend and then gives the phone to the child to have their own conversation.\u00a0 I am sure your kids love to pretend that they are talking on the phone like they see you do it.\u00a0 Children are so funny to watch when they pretend to be like us.\u00a0 It makes me more aware of how I act on the phone, it’s just plain funny.<\/p>\n

Our children imitate us because they want to be like us.\u00a0 To this day if I ask my 8 year old daughter what she wants to be when she grows up she says, “I want to be just like you mom.”\u00a0 I take that as high praise.<\/p>\n

Do we as moms show our children how we pray?\u00a0 Do we talk to them about our faith?\u00a0 Do we take them to our church with us?\u00a0 Do we try to live the way we believe?\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is awkward to talk to your children about your faith if you have never done it before.\u00a0 You have to remember that your child thinks that you are the best person in the world so they will not judge you.\u00a0 Your children will listen to you and want to learn from you.\u00a0 Who do you want to teach your children about God, about praying, about values?\u00a0 Yes, it’s nice to have those “educated” in religion teach our children, the correct information.\u00a0 But it’s not just information if it comes from Mom.\u00a0 If your child sees you pray, your child will pray.\u00a0 If your child goes to Church with you they will understand it is a priority in your life.\u00a0 If your child sees you treat others with love and respect they will imitate those actions as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Think about how you pray, what you believe, about your faith in God and what you want your child to learn.\u00a0 They cannot learn what you do not teach.\u00a0 If you want your child to learn start showing them by doing it, not as an act but for real.\u00a0 Talk to your child about how you pray, break it down to a level they will understand.\u00a0 Talk to your child about your basic beliefs.\u00a0 Let your child see you pray and then pray with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then someday instead of picking up the phone to talk to Mr. Pretend\u00a0you may hear your child talking to God.\u00a0 Hey God it’s me, yep I am here.\u00a0 I am doing great. Hope your doing great.\u00a0 Talk to you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our children love to imitate us; how we talk on the phone, phrases we use even the way we walk. How do our children imitate our faith? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24,20,38,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}