![]() ![]() I want my children to show reverence and respect to our Heavenly Father, but how will they know if we never teach them AND if we aren’t setting an example as well? Here’s a quote on reverence found on LDS.org, HERE: You could even ask how it made them feel to hear the song and to be sitting quietly. Then pick a phrase from that song, and share it with the children. Have the pianist play a reverent song like, “Reverence Is Love” or “The Chapel Doors” or another song from The Children’s Songbook, while the reverent child is standing at the front of the room. If you give them the opportunity to think about it, then they will learn. Or you could ask them why they think we need to be reverent. You could ask them questions about how we should act while we’re at church. But every now and then I think it’s ok to do something a little silly to help encourage reverence.Įvery few weeks you could discuss reverence during Opening Exercises. Reverence is so important, and we need to teach the children the importance of it. I’m sure over time the glasses will lose the excitement, but for now it’s working and the children sit so quietly hoping they get picked. Was it the glasses? Who knows! But I like to think that had something to do with it. Our Stake President couldn’t believe how reverent our JR. I am happy to report that we have now done this for 2 weeks, and so far so good! The first week we gave this a try, happened to also be our Ward Conference. The reverent child would get to wear the Reverent Glasses to help them spot another reverent child, who then would get to check our Primary mailbox (another new thing this year).Īnd here’s my cute little lady modeling these silly ‘reverent glasses’ for you. That sweet little boy stood at the front of the room with his arms folded the entire time! When Primary began I explained to the children that each week we would be choosing a child to be our reverent child. The next week I chose a child to wear the Reverent Glasses, which happened to be a brand new Sunbeam! I was a little nervous, but gave it a try. She too loved the idea, and so we decided to give it a try. I decided to bring up the idea to the Primary President and see what she thought. I was so excited! I LOVED the idea, BUT would it work? I knew the children would absolutely LOVE wearing the glasses, but would it be more of a disruption? Would the children sit there and giggle at the child wearing the glasses? Would another child come up and try to grab the glasses from the reverent child? That night, after we returned from our shopping excursion, I was thinking about Primary, and an idea popped into my mind! ‘What if we had our reverent child wear those big glasses I picked up today!?! What if they had to use these Reverent Glasses to help them spot another reverent child!’ I saw that they were only $1.00 and decided to pick up a pair…you can always use big glasses for Primary. As we were walking down one of the aisles I saw a bunch of huge glasses. We were at the Dollar Store (Dollar Tree, I believe), and we had, luckily, found our notebooks, and were roaming the aisles. We decided we would have a Sharing Time on reverence, and we also discussed having a reverent child stand up at the front of the room while everyone is coming in and waiting for Primary to begin.Ī few weeks ago, I was shopping with my daughter trying to find notebooks for our Scripture Journals. ![]() ![]() Last year, as a presidency, we discussed reverence and how to encourage the children to be reverent without bribing them. ![]()
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