Friday, July 29, 2011

Winning Idea

Greg stumbled across this article and sent it to me knowing me all too well - that I would love it - no surprise there! The only problem is how small and young our family is at this point. It's a future wish, and I pray that in 3 years when I start implementing it I won't have lost the bookmark AND that I actually remember to start doing it.

Can you imagine the possibilities of Sunday stations? What a great way to keep your kids from spend the Sabbath day as an ordinary day. It helps to get individual Daddy/Mommy attention in, encouraging a time for open communication and building trust that can only come through personal attention. I also am excited to apply my skills to creating activities that can be enjoined by my children that are gospel centered.

Here are some of my initial ideas:
1) reading station (duh)
2) memorizing station (temples, scriptures, past prophets)
3) letter/coloring station
4) journal writing station (I feel this needs to be separate from #3 because of the importance of a personal journal)
5) Call Grandma station (they should get one-on-one attention too)
6) music station (they practice hymns on the piano - obviously for older kids)
7) genealogy station (read stories/journals, indexing for older kids)
8) Mom & Dad interviews.

Well, guess we can have 8 kids honey. Just kidding! I don't know if we will do allowance at the same time as the interview. I think I'll try to keep allowance separate from Sunday, but maybe tithing can play into the interview somehow. I might do the interviews separately as well. It's good to have Mom & Dad time, and Mom time and Dad time.

2 comments:

Jana Banana said...

I did this as a kid.. i was in charge and stuff ... i was just trying to keep my siblings busy and such. It was tons of fun and they still talk about it. I highly recommend it. and you dont have to have a big family to do it.....you can make it work with just your little family of 3.5 :) miss you

Miss said...

Huh, interesting idea. I feel like life at home is constantly in stations, just not necessarily known by the children. ;)

Maybe I should make it known. However, I fear, Andrew would insist on a "nap" station that only he could occupy.

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