Comments on: Guest Post: Children and the Book of Mormon Challenge http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:51:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathan [Visitor] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4520 Nathan [Visitor] Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:27:01 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4520 Kids are awesome. My brilliant son also takes an hour to put on his socks and shoes. He is usually in la la land right before church and he can't find his shoes that are literally right next to him, talk about frustrating when you have 15 minutes to go and three kids (and a wife) to get out the door (trust me, the wife is sometimes harder than the kids:) ). Kids are awesome. My brilliant son also takes an hour to put on his socks and shoes. He is usually in la la land right before church and he can’t find his shoes that are literally right next to him, talk about frustrating when you have 15 minutes to go and three kids (and a wife) to get out the door (trust me, the wife is sometimes harder than the kids:) ).

]]> By: JKS [Visitor] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4519 JKS [Visitor] Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:43:56 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4519 (As you can see, I didn't mention my then 5 year old son who is, ummm....not goal oriented? The kid takes an hour to put on his socks. However, if he gets passionate, he can learn amazing things.....today I got to look up the Battle of Midway so I could tell him all about it) (As you can see, I didn’t mention my then 5 year old son who is, ummm….not goal oriented? The kid takes an hour to put on his socks. However, if he gets passionate, he can learn amazing things…..today I got to look up the Battle of Midway so I could tell him all about it)

]]> By: JKS [Visitor] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4518 JKS [Visitor] Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:40:25 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4518 I told my then 7 year old about Pres. Hinkley's request and suggested she pick a particular book in the BoM to read by Dec. 31st. I showed her the table of contents page and pointed out how many pages each book had.<br /> She chose Mormon and finished it in a few weeks. She went onto Ether but I think she stopped somewhere along the way. She is very goal oriented, and so she responded well to the challenge. I told my then 7 year old about Pres. Hinkley’s request and suggested she pick a particular book in the BoM to read by Dec. 31st. I showed her the table of contents page and pointed out how many pages each book had.
She chose Mormon and finished it in a few weeks. She went onto Ether but I think she stopped somewhere along the way. She is very goal oriented, and so she responded well to the challenge.

]]> By: Nathan [Visitor] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4517 Nathan [Visitor] Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:52:40 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4517 I bid my guilty pleasure of pride in my son. He took it on himself to read the book of mormon all on his own. And he did. He finished before his birthday, in mid October. <br /> <br /> He turned 5<br /> <br /> (no help from my wife or me (except to mark off the chapters he read), he did it himself - granted it was the book of mormon stories, but for his age we felt that it was sufficient. However, after he read it, he started to go through each one of the stories and look up the scripture references tied to each scripture story. I don't know how this ended, but he was marking his scriptures in pencil last I knew)<br /> <br /> I hope you will forgive me of my pride in my four year old in his reading ability and his want to follow the prophet. (I am sure this is normal in every four year old, but as a father, it was speciall to me.) I bid my guilty pleasure of pride in my son. He took it on himself to read the book of mormon all on his own. And he did. He finished before his birthday, in mid October.

He turned 5

(no help from my wife or me (except to mark off the chapters he read), he did it himself – granted it was the book of mormon stories, but for his age we felt that it was sufficient. However, after he read it, he started to go through each one of the stories and look up the scripture references tied to each scripture story. I don’t know how this ended, but he was marking his scriptures in pencil last I knew)

I hope you will forgive me of my pride in my four year old in his reading ability and his want to follow the prophet. (I am sure this is normal in every four year old, but as a father, it was speciall to me.)

]]> By: Liz O. [Visitor] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4516 Liz O. [Visitor] Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:28:36 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4516 As a family, we just kept on doing what we've always been doing for the last dozen or so years, keep plodding through the Book of Mormon, ten or twelve verses at a time, before family prayer. We don't usually stop to preach or teach, but comments happen all the time as the kids make links between their lives and the verses we read. <br /> <br /> Individually, various family members made personal choices to read the whole on our own, at their own paces - my husband finished in early December, I finished with a day or two to go, the 15 year old with 4 hours left in the year, and the 17 year old at 11:15 pm New Year's Eve. The teenagers decided on their own to do so (I think this is the power of example?), and were surprised yesterday morning to remember that the bishop had promised a steak dinner to all the teens who finished ("Bonus!" said one.) The 11 and 7 year old read some on their own, but we didn't push them to finish, and we knew that by next summer, we'll have gotten all the way through as a family and start over again. Just as we have before. As a family, we just kept on doing what we’ve always been doing for the last dozen or so years, keep plodding through the Book of Mormon, ten or twelve verses at a time, before family prayer. We don’t usually stop to preach or teach, but comments happen all the time as the kids make links between their lives and the verses we read.

Individually, various family members made personal choices to read the whole on our own, at their own paces – my husband finished in early December, I finished with a day or two to go, the 15 year old with 4 hours left in the year, and the 17 year old at 11:15 pm New Year’s Eve. The teenagers decided on their own to do so (I think this is the power of example?), and were surprised yesterday morning to remember that the bishop had promised a steak dinner to all the teens who finished (“Bonus!” said one.) The 11 and 7 year old read some on their own, but we didn’t push them to finish, and we knew that by next summer, we’ll have gotten all the way through as a family and start over again. Just as we have before.

]]> By: Adam Greenwood [Member] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4515 Adam Greenwood [Member] Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:42:42 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4515 We read a chapter out of the Book of Mormon each night to our Emma Pleasant after she'd climbed into her crib. She doesn't usually pay much attention but when we try to skip it she gets upset. 'Book of Niemer, Book of Niemer!' she says. Or else she'll just say 'need Niemer!'<br /> <br /> I'm pretty sure this is all about putting off going to sleep and the comfort of bedtime routines, but she is getting a little out of it. A few days ago she went around all day saying 'Alma. Alma. Alma.' We read a chapter out of the Book of Mormon each night to our Emma Pleasant after she’d climbed into her crib. She doesn’t usually pay much attention but when we try to skip it she gets upset. ‘Book of Niemer, Book of Niemer!’ she says. Or else she’ll just say ‘need Niemer!’

I’m pretty sure this is all about putting off going to sleep and the comfort of bedtime routines, but she is getting a little out of it. A few days ago she went around all day saying ‘Alma. Alma. Alma.’

]]> By: LisaB [Visitor] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4514 LisaB [Visitor] Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:33:48 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4514 My husband and I decided to share selected verses and summaries from our individual reading with our young children since we started re-reading the BOM this fall/winter. I wanted them to be able to "get through" it with us and didn't think we would be able to accomplish that if we read verse by verse with them. Glad different approaches work for different families and individuals. My husband and I decided to share selected verses and summaries from our individual reading with our young children since we started re-reading the BOM this fall/winter. I wanted them to be able to “get through” it with us and didn’t think we would be able to accomplish that if we read verse by verse with them. Glad different approaches work for different families and individuals.

]]> By: danithew [Visitor] http://www.millennialstar.org/guest-post-children-and-the-book-of-mormon-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-4513 danithew [Visitor] Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:35:28 +0000 http://beta.millennialstar.org/?p=232#comment-4513 Glad to see you on M* Jeff. Sounds like the girls are growing up fast. :) Glad to see you on M* Jeff. Sounds like the girls are growing up fast. :)

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