For Family Home Evening tonight (huge disclaimer here: we haven’t had FHE in months, because I am a terrible parent) we used the Friend and went through the quiz that was in this month’s issue. It was a quiz entitled “Cease to Anger” and it is designed to help each child (and parent) evaluate how patient and forgiving they are (forgiving I am good with, patient… not so much). The quiz was good and the kids enjoyed thinking about the right answers to the hypotheticals, but the best part of the evening was at the end. Ernie told the kids that there were things in his life he wanted to be better at and he asked them to think about what they wanted to improve in their own lives. Emmaline was cute and didn’t totally understand what he was asking, so I asked her to think about when she is at church and in primary- what are the things that when she hears about them, she thinks “I need to do that”. Here are the answers from tonight. I was impressed with the level of self-awareness in the answers that each child gave.
Big Ernie: wants to be more mindful of the finances.
Rebecca: wants to be better at showing love to the kids and not being cranky.
Little Ernie: wants to do better at controlling his emotions, specifically his temper.
Nigel: wants to work on being friends with Emmaline.
Emmaline: wants to be more reverent at church, specifically by being a good listener and not interrupting.
Max: is really cute and only needs to get better at giving Mommy kisses and hugs!
Tonight went well enough that I actually think we might have Family Home Evening again next week!
6 comments:
Darling- Tonight was great. Thank you for putting together Family Home Evening. I think the kids really got something out of it, and it made them consider themselves and how they behave. You are a great mom, and an amazing wife!
a success!
btw, there is a great year of primary-themed FHE lessons in sugardoodle.net. they are VERY simple lessons (i recognzie almost all the ideas from my sunbeams lessons), but so easy and basic.
we have also loved learning the articles of faith and going through the for the strength of youth booklet, one topic at a time, for FHE. it makes it so much easier to be consistent when you have a bigger plan and don't have to figure out what you're going to do every week.
good luck!
All this time I thought it was "CHEESE to anger." Now I am just confused.
What a sweet FHE! I enjoyed reading everyone's goals!
Glad you had FHE last night and it was such a success! It sounds like everyone enjoyed it. When the novelty wears off, it may not seem so great, but the consistency pays off in the long term.
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