Last week, we discussed how you can tell that your kids are actually absorbing gospel principles, even if you didn’t necessarily want to see those signs. This week, I’d like to give you a few clues on how to tell when your kids are listening to their MP3 player during church and family home evening; in short, when they just aren’t absorbing the gospel principles.
8. When you tell your daughter it’s time to leave for church so you can hear General Conference, she tells her friend she has to go, it’s time for her to take a nap.
7. Your son asks you, “Who’s this President Hinckley guy, and why do we care that his business makes a profit?”
6. Your daughter comes home from church and tells you that the teacher wants her to bring her scriptures to Young Women’s. You remind her that she already has a quad. The two of you search her room for hours before finally locating it in its new position as a doorstop.
5. After ten years, your son is still watching for the ghost you keep telling him you are trying to bring into the house. He has the number to the local Ghostbusters for whenever that spirit arrives. (That talk on how crude material drives away the Holy Ghost didn’t go so well, by the way.)
4. When your daughter is about to start dating, you sit her down and explain some guidelines about staying pure so she can be sealed in the temple. She leaps up from the table, wild-eyed, and yells, “What do you mean, I have to be with you guys forever? That’s insane!”
3. Your son explains to his friends that, when he turns 19, he will be serving a mission. “Kind of like Tom Cruise, in Mission: Impossible,” he elaborates.
2. Your daughter argues that doing the dishes on Sunday is work, and therefore isn’t keeping the Sabbath holy. “If we’re going to break it anyway,” he tries, “let’s just go out to eat.”
1. You overhear your son tell a friend, “My mom clipped out these 13 newspaper articles about faith and she wants me to memorize them.”
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