Explaining Death to Your Children

We had brought to our attention by a Facebook Follower, Megan, that she had recently had a death in the family and needed help explaining it to her 2 year old. Another great follower answered her before we got to her and I think that she had a wonderful idea. We will share her idea and Megan's story to hopefully help YOU if you find yourself in this same situation. We have also included some other ideas we've found. We hope this helps!

Something to "TALK" about

HOW DOES SHE does this amazing post once a month with FAMILY DINNER QUESTIONS! She says, "They are in a simple form to represent how simple getting to know your family can bring you closer together.

My family and I have been doing this for a year and I have learned and laughed as we answered some of the questions. You don’t have to have kids to do this…how well do you think you know your spouse? your parents? your friends?

Some of the questions are silly some are serious. It spurs on ideas and thoughts to make you and your family think."

Family Motto

It seems like everyone these days is soooo stressed about money, and life, and just making it. Everyone is struggling with something...Some days are good, and some are harder. My microwave is setting our food on fire(particularly Hayden's veggies, I think Hayden probably planned it all on purpose so he doesn't have to eat his enemy the vegetable), but there was a silver lining today, a possible job opportunity for Cory... My point in all this rambling, is there are triumphs, and disappointments in life and I found a FABULOUS quote by President Monson that is now going to be our own, "family motto," so to speak. We live in an apartment and won't be here long or I would splurge to get it in vinyl...but until then I made this:

and it is going right above the light switch right next to the front door where we can see it all. the. time :)

I feel so uplifted whenever I read it. I want to "live greatly!" I want my family to "live greatly!" I know Heavenly Father is looking out for all of us and I hope you find this quote as comforting as I do. If you would like it for your own home, car, scrapbook, or where ever..... download it

HERE....

I made it for a 5x7 frame. I didn't want it to big, I think you can probably make it bigger if you would want or I can probably email you the file  :)

We Have Special Families

Ok, I put this handout together for my primary class for this Sunday. They can be used for FHE too! It goes along with the Primary 2 lesson 6. The thing I love about being a primary teacher is I get lots of ideas to do for family home evening for my YOUNG kids! So here is a preview:

This first one is for the child to draw a picture of his/her unique family!

This one is for older kids. They can think of an acronym for the word family! Like 'Fun,' 'Always there,' 'Musical,' 'Important,' 'Laughter,' 'Young and old,' etc.


To download the PDF files, click below!