What do you do to teach your child/ren about God?
I thought I would start this. I can share what I do, but when I read Mikki's post the other day about how her kids were building the temple and the Holy Place out of sticks...I was floored! It made me think about the things that I do, and what I could add. So I thought I'd start a thread where people could leave their own habits. Here are some of the things that we do:
1. Sing songs like Jesus Loves Me every night
2. Talk about the projects he brings home from church and Bible study
3. Pray before meals and bed
4. Read Bible stories occasionally
5. I bought Veggie Tales DVD's hoping he'd get interested, but he doesn't like them Cry. Does he know how long I've been waiting to have a child so I could have an excuse to watch Veggie Tales (which came out after I was in my teens and "too cool")?
6. Send him to a Christian preschool where he has chapel and learns about the world in the context of God's creation...
All of these are simple things...I'd love to hear more ideas...for every age group, not just the preschool age...after all, he'll grow up! Grin
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Each morning I will wake up and begin my day by reading uplifting scriptures, doing a personal study or following a bible reading program from our church. Then I would finish with a prayer to ask God's blessing on my family throughout the day. This was putting on God's armor, but with a recent trial with my youngest daughter, only 8 and expressing that she hates her life, I sought guidance with our pastor on how to help her through her pain and sadness.
Many of you know my little girl either personally or from other posts, she has always been one to contemplate adult things and often suffers many emotional pains. But hearing her express that she hated her life was a real shock, and a scare for me. My pastors recommendation (one of many amazing ones) was to pray with her each morning out loud asking God's protection from her pain, sadness and being afraid all the time. He pointed out to me that mothers are excellent at building relationships and I should focus on my strength and help her build a relationship with God.
So I immediately took his advice and prayed this way with her starting the very next morning and I noticed Morgan came to breakfast more alert and interested. While I was praying alone and asking God's blessing on my family, I wasn't including them in that prayer and showing them how to receive God's blessing. After only one prayer with her she felt better, safer. My pastor reminded me that although we need the whole family study time it is equally important to have that one on one as well and especially for Morgan.
What are your experiences with this? Do any of you have a little one that tends to be over sensitive and found in deep thought? Please share your experiences.
Mikki Hogan
Publisher of UniqueParenting.com
Wow, I can't believe I missed this. I do remember seeing it and meant to come back and post, then forgot
Interestingly enough when I clicked on my "unread" posts this was here, boy that thing sure is funny 
I am glad for this mix up though because it is such and important thread and valuable for parents to exchange ideas in this area.
Elsie - I believe it is the simple things that teach our children the most about God because it is natural and fun. They learn to associate God and His truth with that feeling of pleasure and warmth, exactly how it should be. And as for Veggie Tales, go ahead and watch them. The fact that Aiden won't sit through the shows doesn't mean you can't play them and accidentally watch them yourself
Here are some things we do:
1. Discuss God in daily activities, like sharing how beautiful God's creation is on a walk
2. Place God first in our struggles, for example when the kids are scared or angry I remind them they can talk to God about and He will listen
3. We also pray before meals and bed
4. We participate in family Bible studies that incorporate different interactions
5. Our homeschool studies incorporate God into our subjects, in fact rich books written before the Civil War are predominant in their comfort to mention God, including romance novels!
6. Listen to music that comfortably mention God, not just Christian stations but other genres that openly praise God.
I look forward to hearing ideas from other members too. Kids are ever growing and so are the ways to teach them
Mikki Hogan Publisher of UniqueParenting.com