Oct. 22, 2009

Book of Service

    For catechism this week, we created a book of service. We are going to dedicate Saturday catechism to doing something for someone else. Each week, the kids will make something for somebody or do something for them. We have lots of opportunities here to help people. We know how intimidating and lonely it can be moving to this country and some of the people who live here are older and all alone. The first thing we will do is have the boys deliver a movie and shows that my husband got for one of our friends here who just had surgery. She's a very nice lady and has been very good to our family. It's very easy to do something nice for her.

     Next week, I was  thinking that it would be better to make some cookies or do something nice for the man who cleans our porch. He is from Pakistan. We don't interact with him very much because he doesn't speak English. But, he is all alone here too and helping him would be more selfless. He probably doesn't get homemade cookies very often either. I'm glad that we're doing this because it just makes us think about what we can do for other people a lot more. It makes it more of a habit when we have to come up with something every week. I bought smiley faces to put on the sheet every time they write something in it. I was reading an article about how important praise is to our children. Sometimes, I do get wrapped up in criticizing what they do and I forget to tell them how great they are doing. It's something I will have to work on. I'm going to have to start recognizing the problems they get right and make more of a point letting them know how great that is, instead of focusing on the ones that are wrong.

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