Faith in Parenting

Yesterday I shared with you some of ideas for volunteering around Thanksgiving as a way to teach our kids to be grateful. Today, I want to focus on ways we can help our kids to see the actual day of Thanksgiving not just as a delicious meal, but also an opportunity to give thanks to God for all He has given us.

These tips came out of this week’s Tuesdays at 2:00 discussion, which you can listen to in its entirety here on the site.

Ways to Incorporate Lessons About Thanks During the Actual Thanksgiving Meal:

• Have the kids make place cards for each guest. Then have everyone at the table write down (on the back of the card) one thing they’re thankful for, and share.
• Record what each person shares in a Thanksgiving journal. This keepsake could be as simple as a plain notebook decorated - by the kids - with leaves on the front.
• Agree to memorize a verse or passage of Scripture and recite it together at the dinner table. Friends of ours, who have invited us to dinner this year, have asked us to memorize Psalm 100.

How about you? What do you do as a family to incorporate the faith message behind this holiday celebration? Let us know by leaving a “comment” below.

In addition, feel free to listen to the Tuesdays at 2:00 call from this week for more ideas about how to teach our kids to give thanks to God at Thanksgiving.

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