Who do your kids want to be like when they grow up? Much of who they want to be, depends on who they are around/exposed to now. It may be people they know in person, or those in media, sports, or books. 

Worthwhile to consider and also with significant bearing on your children’s desires are “who” you want to be. Regardless of how old you are, each of us has goals and ideals, some high and some low.Like our children, these goals are affected by the influences in your life (work, sports, movies, TV, media, books, Bible, church). Once something is in your mind, you don’t easily remove it. Therefore, what is worldly and negative, avoid, and what is edifying, embrace. 

Brothers, Satan wants to take you down. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world”(1 Peter 5:8-9). 

What is important to you is key. How much are you in the Word and want to please the  One Who purchased you? “Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless” (2 Peter 3:14).

 Who you are and what you are aiming for with your life has profound impact on your children. “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”(1 Corinthians 15:58).