By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families
in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of
life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for
the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and
mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners. Disability, death,
or other circumstances may necessitate individual adaptation.
Extended families should lend support when needed.
Read before the lesson:
Song:
Scripture:
And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of
Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that
our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their
sins.
Lesson:
Get a crown (just a simple homemade one will do) and put it
on dad. Tell the kids that fatherhood is a real blessing. Ask your children why
they think that is. Have the father tell them how special he feels being the
father. Ask him what steps he had to take to become a good father. Then put the
crown on the mothers head. Tell them that motherhood is a real blessing. Ask
them why they think that is. Then have the mother tell them why it is so
special and all the steps that she needed to take before she became a mother. Then
ask the children what they can do to become a good father/mother someday. Bare
your testimony of the roles of parenthood and why it is so important.
After you bare your testimony ask them what would happen if
something were to happy to either mommy or daddy. Tell them that extended
family will always be willing to help out in case something were to happen. If
you don’t have a will set one up and show your kids. You don’t want to scare
them but they need to know what would happen if something were to happen. Tell
them who they would go to in case of an emergency. Treat this with respect,
some children may be very sensitive. End with sharing with them some fun things
that they think they could do to help out the family if something were to
happen, all answers should be included. Even little acts of kindness can go a
long way.
Game:
Choose the best activity to fit your family:
1.
Gather a bag full of things that represent faithful
men. (mission badge, cub scout book, faith in God book, graduation cap,
scriptures, temple recommend, a hammer, money, oil etc) Then have a bag to represent faithful women
(faith in God, young women’s book, scriptures, graduation hat, bottle, children’s
book, temple recommend, can of food, etc)
Have them each pull something out of the bag and ask them how that would
help a boy/girl in their role to become parents.
2.
Have them paint a picture of who they want to
become some day.
3.
Print off a picture of the family all together,
and make a puzzle out of it. Have them put it together and while they are
putting it together, tell them that we all have our roles that we need to play
in the family and everyone is equally important and the family could not function
without anyone in the family.
4.
Make a family tree.
Treat:
Cupcakes with blue and pink frosting.
Follow up through out the week:
Have the kids do some normal everyday things with the
parents. Have them get a feel for what it is like to be a parent.
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