Do as I say; not as I do.
Do as I say; not as I do Growing up, this was a popular statement used by many parents; as a matter of fact, I still hear it used today: parents would often tell their their children to “do as I say; not as I do.” But if you know anything about children, you will know that children do what you do and say what you say: this is called modeling according to popular Psychologist Albert Bandura. When children do as you do, it is based on the actions they observed; hence Bandura also refers to this as observational learning. My son is a great example. When I pray, I sometimes apply olive oil to my head as a reminder of the anointing of the Lord upon me and my son sees that. One morning as I was doing it, he stretched out his little hands to me as a non verbal cue for me to put some oil in his hand. Thankfully, I was aware of the meaning of that, so I poured a little in his hand. Would you guess what he did? He touched my head and rubbed the oil from his hand unto my hair. This is not the on
