It's TIME---Teach your children and teens about pornography

I had a friend recently tell me a story about a 7 yr. old boy preparing for his baptism.  When he had his interview with the bishop, it came out that this young boy already had an addiction to pornography.  How can this happen to a 7 yr. old...??!!   With so much access to the internet, the harmful experience to view pornography awaits with a touch of an innocent fingertip.  NO matter how much we try to shield our children from these pictures, it's almost impossible to do to some degree with all the technology, media, billboards, and magazines around us.  One of the best things we can do for our children is to teach and give them their own set of tools to pull from when they are confronted with these harmful situations. The links below offer 4 family home evening lessons from the church about how to teach children of all ages and teens about pornography. 

 1- My Body is from God  

2- The spirit can help me choose good media

  3-What should I do if I see pornography  

 4- The Savior desires to forgive and heal the wounds of pornography  

FHE-Scripture Story Memory

A simple, and fantastic family home evening idea is to get index cards and write the name of a person from the scriptures on one card and on another card write a short phrase that describes what they did.  You could do different sets of stories from  Book of Mormon, Old Testament, New Testament, etc.  This could be a quick and easy FHE game to pull out on more than one occasion.  I feel like this is a great way to teach and review the stories. You could even write the scripture reference on the card and use this time to study some of the stories. One of the most important things we can teach our children are the scripture stories. Take some time to teach how we can learn from these powerful stories. Smart people learn from their own experiences and smarter people learn from other's experiences! The Lord speaks to us through the scriptures.

 

Examples from Old Testament

Person	Action
Adam	Left the Garden of Eden
Enoch	His righteous city was translated
Noah	Built an ark
Abraham	Willing to sacrifice his son
Rebekah	Left her family to marry Isaac
Joseph	Forgave his brothers
Moses	Saved his people from bondage
Ruth	Accepted the gospel from her mother-in-law
David	With the strength of the Lord, killed a giant
Elijah	Fed by ravens during a drought

Fill Your Lamp

Fill your Lamp

 

  I was inspired by Linda K. Burton's talk  "Prepared in a Manner That Never Had Been Known" during the General Relief Society Meeting two weeks ago.  I decided to do a Family Home Evening on the things we should be doing daily to prepare for the temple and for eternal life. I borrowed a decorative oil lamp from my sister for a display. We are going to listen to the last seven minutes of the talk.  Then our kids will write on little slips of paper representing drops of oil what things we should do to fill our oil lamps.  I'm going to tape their drops to the oil lamp.  I'd like to focus on each of the acts we talk about for the oil drops in subsequent weeks.  This week we are going to follow up with very short mini lessons (2-5 min.) on prayer each night during our scripture study time.