Lions

I am not great at family home evening. I have been a slacker, but I have been trying a little harder to be better and more consistent. So when I saw a post on pinterest about 5 minute family home evenings I thought that was perfect for our little family and Daisy's short attention span. Anyway this particular lesson was learning right from wrong. I had two jars one with a smiley face and one with a frowny face. I then printed out a list of good things and bad things, then cut them into strips for Daisy to pick out, read as a family, then decide if it should go in the happy jar or the bad jar. She caught on after 2 strips, and with some help she picked the right jars.

I decided to make a strip of paper that said "lying" on it. We haven't talked about lying yet because Daisy is just starting learn how, mainly at bedtime when she doesn't want to sleep.

Just a side story that goes with lying...The other night Daisy would not stay in her bed. Up and down, up and down. She had to go potty, she was scared, she needed the light on, she needed more sippy, this went on and on. Finally I was about to lay down the law when she creep-ed out one more time, but this time she said there were ants in her bed and they were biting her and she needed to take a shower. Obviously there were no ants in her bed, but it was kind of a freaky little pretend story she came up with. And that is why I decided to make a strip about lying so we could talk about honesty.

So when Daisy pulled the strip about lying out, I started to explain that lying is when you say one thing but you know that it isn't right. I could tell she was trying hard to follow, I know the concept of a lie is still a little above her thinking capacity, but I could see the wheels turning. She looked at Aaron and I and in a very serious voice said "I am afraid of lions"... Then started talking about her room. We just laughed. Maybe you had to be there, she knew what a lion was but no what lying was. Maybe next she will get it.