If only dad attends church and mom doesn't, only fifty five percent will stay in the church. If only mom goes to church and the dad never goes, only fifteen percent of the children will be faithful to God later in life. If neither the mother nor the father attend church at all, six percent will be faithful to God. Father, your kids are going to be like you. Your little girl or boy will not put God first either.
Children are natural mimics.
They act like us in spite of all efforts to change them. I'm walkin' in the tracks you dig, I'm gettin' just like you, fast's I can. Fathers, you need to be just what you want your kids to be. Just because you are a fifth generation Seventh-day Adventist it doesn't mean your child will be a sixth generation Adventist. God can enable you to break that downward spiral.