This is a follow-up of the two previous blog posts of teaching embellishments. Two weeks ago I talked about how youth program in church can help teach the child organization. One week ago I talked about how youth program can help in a child’s training and put them together experience. Today, I like to talk about how a youth program can help strengthen the bond between child and the audience.
I hope these comments can be of use to youth ministries, family devotionals, family home evenings, and child development students.
As a single woman, I have not had extensive experience with children, except when I was the primary presidency a decade or two ago and in recent years with my children’s fiction and storytelling experiences. Having a bunch of children preforming in before an audience can be quite an entertaining adventure. And that is the purpose of this blog today. I’m following up on advantages, I see in having such a program. I hope these ideas will be of interest.
– I can appreciate how parents and grandparents can enjoy seeing their children reform in church. It provides a great bond opportunity for the family unit. Something that I like about the program is that each one had a procedure on picture of a child in the front colored in crayon. I think this is useful in that it helps personalize this child illustration with any team or adult attending the service.
– A bond can be strengthened between child and parent when the parent sees their child till of an experience that they’ve had a home that helped strengthen their testimony of God. It kind of validates the parent’s efforts to teach their children Christian principles. When a child repeats those concepts to others.
– Having a child preforming a program requires a lot of practice. A lot of that must take place at home as a parent helps the child to either memorize the song or to give a speech. The nice thing about this is that while the parent and child together, and the practicing under talk, that might provide an opportunity for a child to ask additional questions for the parent to have an opportunity to do for the teaching. The same exchange can take place between a teacher and a child while at church.
– Multiple times throughout the program, I heard quiet little chuckles from adults and saw knowing smiles shared amongst the audience members that were amused by the antics and singing of the children. I think of this kind of exchange to be a little like warm fuzzes of experience between the child and the audience. Such childish actions as the words of songs being sung at an unusually high pitch, or of a little boy singing a note of a song a little longer than the rest.
– As an adult or teen, we may have had years of instruction on religious concepts. Getting instruction of faith in God, love of God, trust in God and the innocence and face of a child can remind us of the simplicity of God’s gospel, and perhaps how effortless it can be to follow God’s gospel. If we had the obedience and trust of the child. Children express concepts in the simplest terms, and it can be refreshing to just hear the basics from a child’s perspective.
– One good example of having the gospel expressed simply was when a child compared repentance to taking a test. He said that when you spell a word wrong, you use the eraser to fix it.
I have to admit that one of the reasons I like the Sunbeam song in primary, is because every time I seeing about being a Sun beam, I have a strong urge to sing it in high soprano. I then mentally compliment myself for resisting such a temptation, and not doing so in public. But it does create a fond memory. As I was probably the child who may have taken great delight in causing a chuckle or two by an adult.
