…is the Family Home Evening Resource Book! We had this at my house growing up, and I remember giving lessons from it. I finally bought one for our Melanchuk family about a year ago. We didn’t use it much since Kathryn seemed so young, but for some reason I packed it along to Kyiv. Several weeks ago I decided we needed a little more structure for Family Home Evening
So I made a chart with Music, Lesson, Activity, and Treat – one thing for each person in our family - started exploring the Family Home Evening Resource Book, and the love affair began. It has 26 lessons, plus lessons for special occasions (such as Christmas). Each lesson also has a few other lesson ideas so there are many more than 26 lessons. Each lesson also has ideas of how to adapt for young children or for teenagers.
Then there are sections on how to make Family Home Evenings successful, more ideas for lessons (37 to be exact), ideas and examples for building a strong family, and family activites. There are all sorts of activities to do as a family for different age groups. It talks about how to deal with and teach different ages of children. Its practically a parenting manual!!! I have literally spent hours reading it, and plan to spend more hours as the years go by.
The best part is that Kathryn has really gotten into Family Home Evening and also the “lesson book” as she calls it. She is so excited to participate each Monday night, and looks through the “lesson book” each week (even if its not her turn on lesson). She likes to look at the chart and say “remember this?”