A couple
weeks ago we cancelled our cable at home. We decided that we could live
watching shows on Hulu, Netflix, etc. and cut a ton of our costs. One of
the shows that our kids have been watching through each and every episode of
every season is The Cosby Show.
I remember when this show was first on and watching it with my parents.
I’ve constantly referenced it since then when I’ve been raising the kids, and
so they wanted to watch the episodes.
Well,
almost every episode one of my kids will turn to me and say that I’ve either
said or done the same thing that they just watched on TV. It cracks me up
as they are so right…I really did take a lot more away from that show than I
ever thought. I often treat my kids the same way, and I can’t really say
that my doing that is bad at all. The funniest part is that the kids are
noticing me doing the same things.
This fact
does have me thinking about the other shows that people watch and how much they
could be emulating them as well. Would I be happy if my kids saw me doing
things from The Simpsons? How
about Married with Children?
It’s very true that the things that we put into our heads is the same stuff
that comes out. My parenting style has been shaped from my parents, along
with stuff I’ve seen on TV from The Cosby
Show, Home Improvement,
etc. Yet, most of all it’s been shaped by God through my reading from the
Bible and doing many different parenting studies. I’ve spent time with
other people going through the same things that I am going through and have gained
from their experiences to figure out how to handle situations.
Today the
thought I want to leave you with is just to examine the things that have
influence on your life. Be it parenting, marriage, money, etc., the
information that comes into your life are the same things that will show to
others. We all spend years gathering information and eventually most of
that is going to come out one way or another. I’d like to encourage you
to look for positive influences in people, from media, etc. Those
positive influences just might be seen by others some day, and like my family
and The Cosby Show, I’m sure you’d rather it be positive than negative.
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