We're their role models

...or so we're told.

You know how we're always told as parents that we are our children's best role models? We're meant to equipe them with tools for living. From the very basic (eating with utensils as opposed to our hands) to the more academic (reading is good, reading books is even better, as opposed to the backs of cereal boxes) we strive to give them the tools they will need to make it through life.

But it's not just what we teach them specifically. A lot of what they learn is through imitation. How to walk or how to talk to others are the first two that come to mind.

Now that my girls are getting older, I'm also noticing that they imitate me in other ways. They are always drawing or crafting for example. They wrap long scarves around their necks the way I do. They wear their hair pulled back in a clip like I often do. It's sweet and so endearing. Knowing that they are watching me without my being aware and imitating me as they grow older.

But sometimes it makes me wonder. And worry just a little bit about just how much they actually are imitating me.

Especially at times like this.....