Contributed by Natalie T.
This can be used with two different talks.
Song: Kindness begins with me
Scripture: 3 nephi 11:28-30
John 15:12
John 15:12
Thought: "Being part of a family is a great blessing. Your family can provide you with companionship and happiness, help you learn correct principles in a living atmosphere, and help you prepare for eternal life. Strong families require effort. Your family will be blessed as you do your part to strengthen it. Be cheerful, helpful, and considerate of family members. Many problems in the home come from family members speaking and acting selfishly or unkindly. Seek to be a peacemaker rather than to tease, fight, and quarrel. Show love for your family members each day. (From For the strength of the youth)
Object lesson:
Need: sharpies and white dinner plates. ( I bought mine at the dollar store)
Need: sharpies and white dinner plates. ( I bought mine at the dollar store)
Have each person take a sharpie and write down anything they said that day or week that was unkind. My older children asked if anyone one would see it and I said no. . Or for younger ones, you can right unkind words or draw how they felt when they said something mean. Once everyone is finished writing down everything on their plate walk outside and have each person drop their plate. (It should break into many pieces). Then have them say they are sorry to the plate. Ask them if saying sorry made it all come back together. (Go back inside if cold :)).
Quote: "on this mortal journey we must never think that our choices affect only us" Elder Kacher
We then talked about how when we are unkind, especially with our words, we hurt others. Our words can be "sharp". Our words are powerful and our actions are powerful and we must do all we can to make them ones that will not hurt others.
I then brought out a China plate and asked who would want to write on this plate. (The older ones said no, the younger ones not realizing it's worth wanted too :))And I explained how precious it was to me and how I cherished it. And I explained that this is how we felt about our children and how our Heavenly Father feels about each of us. We are precious to him and need to be kind to one another.
Quote:"kindness is powerful, especially in a family setting. ". "As difficult as it is to live in the turmoil surrounding us, our Savior's command to love one another as he loves us is probably our greatest challenge. ". Elder Oaks
Quote:"kindness is powerful, especially in a family setting. ". "As difficult as it is to live in the turmoil surrounding us, our Savior's command to love one another as he loves us is probably our greatest challenge. ". Elder Oaks
I then ended by repeating the song how "kindness begins with me". And we talked about how we each need to work on ourselves being kinder to others and also kind to ourselves. And if we each did that contention would decrease and there would be more love in the home.
Closing song: love one another
You can make this as short or as long as needed. With a big family we need things for everyone to do. We also talked a little about who makes us feel angry and how when we choose to be kind we are letting the savior when our hearts and not satan.
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