I am reading multiple books right now and one happens to be, "Three Steps to a Strong Family." I bought it during the school year with plans of reading it this summer when I had more time to reflect and implement useful ideas. I love it. This book will lead us to the Family Home Evening I have written about a few times.
Step one was a family meeting to begin creating a set of laws or rules. We sat down and talked about what rules/laws are. Then we read a great story called, "The Kingdom with NO rules, NO laws and No king." It was hard for Olivia to listen to because it didn't have pictures but Braden keyed right in. Afterwards we listed any and all rules/laws we thought we should have at our house. A few, "don't hurt flowers," or "don't kill animals," we lumped under, "No Violence." They came up with a good number of them and Steve and I suggested what we thought was missing.
When we were done Braden went through them for us with a sparkle wand and knew each one from the small picture we drew along side. The laws have come up quite a few times already in conversation which is the whole idea. We want to keep them in the forefront of our minds until next week when we'll try to pair them down and lump others together so that our list isn't so long.
I love our family and I love that I have a husband that is completely supportive of things like this. I'm feeling very blessed right now.
2 comments:
This is wonderful Sarah. I need this book. I need to make time to organize this part of our family life. This is almost exactly how I got my classroom started. Amazing how it can work outside of the classroom....and Braden will be a leader in his classroom if it is even close to how they set up their classroom beliefs.
This is all good, Sarah; I love it. We did this when the kids were little. We also try to have a theme each school year into the following summer that we follow. One year it was try new things - so we tried new foods, activities, etc.. We all brainstorm for the theme and it adds a little different element to the rules/laws.
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