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Like Father Like Son

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* He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland * A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.  ~Author Unknown  * When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain   Like father, like son...we hear the phrase often. This week I observed it happening in church. A dad sitting with his two year old son was playing around with him, by tapping the child on the head with the bulletin. The young boy immediately climbed up in the chair next to his dad and tapped him on the head with a piece of paper. I laughed to myself thinking that children imitating their parents begins at such an early age. It really makes you think about the importance of our words and actions bec...