Hey all,
With a topic of "Building Righteous Traditions" for this month, FHE is the first thing that comes to my mind. I find FHE a little bit awkward with a 1-year-old. She's at an age where she understands things if they're simple (perhaps she understands more, I guess I wouldn't really know). It makes for super short lessons (i.e. we should take care of our bodies, let's do push-ups and eat berries) and sometimes completely unrelated activities.
What do you guys do for FHE?
With a topic of "Building Righteous Traditions" for this month, FHE is the first thing that comes to my mind. I find FHE a little bit awkward with a 1-year-old. She's at an age where she understands things if they're simple (perhaps she understands more, I guess I wouldn't really know). It makes for super short lessons (i.e. we should take care of our bodies, let's do push-ups and eat berries) and sometimes completely unrelated activities.
What do you guys do for FHE?
Brent and I have been doing very loose FHEs until now. We figure we better get more structured now that we have Hannah around. At four months who knows what sticks in her head but don't want to take the chance of missing the moment she starts to "get it". We keep it very very simple. Say a prayer, sing a primary song sometimes, one of us gives a spiritual thought, we talk about our previous week's goals and set new ones for the coming week. The goal thing is an idea Brent got at church and I really like it. It provides some accountability since we report to each other and gives my week some direction. Some of the goals are to help us establish more righteous routines like keeping up on scripture study and such. Since Hannah is so young I mostly just pretend she is involved by singing straight to her, telling her what we are doing, directing little snippets of the spiritual thought straight to her... someday the pretending will become real. It's very short and sweet but structured and "involves" Hannah. It's a new thing so hopefully we keep it up so it becomes habit.
ReplyDeleteComing from a standpoint with a crazy two year old:
ReplyDeleteWe've always had very inconsistent (or not at all) home and visiting teachers so we've gotten into the habit of the first two weeks of the month reading the home teaching and visiting teaching messages respectively. The rest of the month we listen to a conference talk or read an article out of the Ensign. Naomi mostly ignores all of this and just climbs all over us. We're new to the whole FHE thing since neither of our families were very consistent about it as we got older. As Naomi gets a little older I plan on doing more lessons that involve her and make more sense to her. Right now we're just teaching her how to pray since her vocab is finally expanding some more. After our Ensign time we sing primary songs and Naomi loves it. She's even started singing along instead of just doing the actions! So, I think it's ok if it's awkward right now. Right now it's more like we're building a habit, like Carlene said. We've got plenty of time to refine it. And, let's face it, with multiple kids it will probably never be perfect and always be a little crazy.