Let me start off by saying this....
Apparently our child is completely spoiled in the fact that he thinks evening time is a time for playing on his Ipad, watching tv, or running around like a wild banshee!
This is somewhat our fault as his parents.
We have let him do this every night.
Anyway, to stay that it was difficult to reign him in is an understatement.
We started by turning off the TV (which I actually enjoyed not having any background noise for a change) and made a little pallet on the floor.
Within maybe the first ten seconds I could tell this was not going to be as easy as I had imagined.
I didn't want to punish Cohen for not wanting to do devo because then he might think that when we do devo we are punishing him by MAKING him do it.
We pray that he WANTS to spend time wrapped up in God's word.
There was some whining involved.
A few tears shed while trying to reign Cohen in.
But after teaching for seven years I have learned not to get discouraged when things quickly go array.
So I used by best tactic......bribery.
I know. I know.
It's not the best way to go about it.
But sometimes its all I've got.
Don't judge me.
Anyway, after a little tweaking and a few gummies later we were finally getting somewhere.
Our first lesson was on God's creation. This was an easy concept for Cohen to understand because we actually reiterate all the time that God makes all things including animals, stars, the earth, the land, the sea, etc.
Cohen did really well with making his Gods Creations booklet and with his memory verse.
I think tomorrow we will pretty much go over the same thing and teach him the hand motions to his bible verse.
His verse for this week is:
"Let us make man in our image..." Genesis 1:23
I think the most precious thing about his lesson tonight was having him pull two names out of his prayer jar and say a prayer for those people.
And whose names did he pull:
Mommy and Baby Finn:)
I want to also say that having Tyler do the devo was so helpful.
I am blessed beyond words to have a husband who is willing to put time and effort into making sure that his children know and have a love for God!
What a blessing!
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