Monday, March 10, 2008
It pays to read the scriptures
We have been trying really hard to read scriptures as a family every night. We have not been very good until the last three months. We only read about three verses a night and are only to the tree of life. We ask Will every night, "What did you learn from those verses?" He has no clue so it's pretty funny. We talk about the rod of iron and he asks every night what iron is even though we told him the night before. Two nights ago the verses said "male and female" and Will asked what that meant. We told him and today he said, "Mom, are you a female? Am I am male? Is Daddy a male?" Pretty cool stuff you learn in the scriptures, no?
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Reading scriptures as a family has become a part of the kids' bedtime ritual. We don't get much more than 10-15 verses. Both Abby and Leah "read" a few verses themselves. This is good, because Abby is very interested in reading right now.
I get the biggest kick out of Abby recognizing that what we're reading is something she learned in Primary. And both Abby and Leah now love "Book of Mormon Stories" as one of their bed-time songs. -Jess
We finally transitioned to the morning/breakfast reading. The kids will sometimes read for us, but it's usually me reading to them. We have one of those Book of Mormon for the Latter Day Family books. It's the regular BofM but with quotes from the prophets, general authorities, pictures, questions to think about, etc on the bottom of the pages. It also has definitions of certain words in it, which is great because sometimes we forget the kids don't know what "wrestling with the Lord" or "iniquities" means. Geoff used to think Enos was really wrestling!! The book has been a great investment for us all. I've used some of those quotes for talks and lessons as a reference with the scripture. Now we just need the books for NT, OT, D&C, etc.
More than one of our kids began their reading experience with the Book of Mormon. We assigned them to read "And it came to pass," every time it came up in a verse -- and that gave them lots to read. :)
They begin to look for it and follow along. And although they really don't know how to read, they recognize the statement and think they can really read. Try that, too.
I'm so glad some (hopefully all) of you are doing this with your families. Don't wait until they are teenagers -- it is nearly impossible for us to have consistent reading time together these days. We continue to plow through and the resistance by the kids to the habit it lessening, which is a good sign.
Mom
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