Review this week’s lesson by asking your little ones the following questions:
1. What was the name of Jesus’ friend in our lesson? (Peter)
2. What happened when the mean king heard that Peter was telling everyone that Jesus wants to be their friend forever? (He ordered Peter to be thrown in jail.)
3. Who woke up Peter? (An angel)
4. What happened? (The angel helped Peter walk out of jail so he could continue to tell other about Jesus.)
5. Who wants to be our friend forever? ( Jesus wants to be our friend forever.)
Check out this extra video with your preschooler and learn about Paul and Silas who were amazing at the “go and tell” mission. Don’t forget to ask them, who wants to be your friend forever? (Jesus wants to be my friend forever!)
Watch the video with your child here:
Watch the video here
We’ve been celebrating Jesus a lot this month. In fact, we even have our own cheer! We thought your family would like to join along as we cheer for Jesus! Goooo Jesus!
This week’s lesson was from Matthew 28. Your preschoolers learned Jesus gave His friends the very special job of telling others about Him before He left. Watch the video with your child here:
Watch the video here
by Dan Scott
Every morning on the way to work, I travel a road that seems like a never-ending construction site. Workers have been perfecting this throughway for months, but it seems like there’s no end in sight. The road is down to one lane in several places, bumpy and dusty with heavy-duty vehicles lining the sides of the road and construction workers everywhere. Driving this road is like navigating an obstacle course. Yet I traverse it every morning because regardless of how difficult the drive, the road takes me where I need to go.
Often the road to peace can be as bumpy as a drive through a construction zone.
Jenna and I have four kids with four distinct personalities and four totally different ways of communicating. When everything mixes together well, we have a home full of joy. But let’s be real, the four little people in our house don’t always play nicely together. Arguments happen, and often.
When our kids fight, the quick fix is appealing. “Go to your rooms. You’re in time out. No more Wii for either of you. We’ll deal with this later.”
But when we take a breath and remember that we’re raising adults, we realize that the quick fix doesn’t teach them how to deal with real life, just how to escape it.
When kids are arguing, we have to be willing to put on our hard hats and walk our kids through the messy part of making peace. We can use those broken moments to help them learn how to restore the relationship that gets broken when an argument shatters the peace.
Over the years we’ve tried all sorts of strategies for helping our kids. Some have been great, others, not so much. Here are a few of the ones that have seemed to work:
It takes a lot less energy to employ the quick fixes. But with the end goal of raising peace-making adults in mind, you can see that it’s worth the time to help your kids practice making peace. By helping them learn how to travel through the bumps in a rocky relational road, you’ll be helping your kids build lasting relationships with each other and setting them up to win with friendships outside of your home too.
Taken from The Parent Cue: http://theparentcue.org/the-road-to-peace/