SG Kids Resources for the Holidays
Abigail has been doing a truly fantastic job of making epic SG Kids Parramatta TV episodes and so she is going to take a break to rest, catch up on Uni, and plan for future weeks.
Here are some resources you can use to help you fulfill your calling from God, Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” It is our privilege, and our responsibility alone to train our children the gospel and how to live in God’s world.
1) Read the bible and pray with your kids for five minutes.
Plain and simple. Pull out the kids bible or even the real deal and choose a story, read it, ask 1 or 2 questions, pray. Done. We all know that we need daily feeding of the word to live, well, so do our kids! Let’s not deprive them of the Word of God! Here is a good challenge put out by Youthworks, the 5-5-5 challenge.
If this is something you don’t yet do everyday, now is the time to start, not tomorrow, not when they are older, start now. Sow the seed and in years to come you will reap the fruit. Don’t wait until they are old enough to understand, or still enough to listen, or mature enough to engage in discussion. This is what God says in Deuteronomy 6:6-9
6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
2) Watch good stuff.
There is lots of stuff to watch. Watch good stuff.
Rewatch old SG Kids Parramatta episodes!
City on a Hill have their own online kids show, City Kids TV, just like ours, but not as good ;)
Kids Talks with Colin Buchanan
3) Listen to Good Stuff
Keep listening to awesome kids music that is biblically true and engaging. Here a few recommendations
4) Read other good stuff
Buy or borrow good kids books that teach a christian worldview
I recently bought this book on prayer and have been going through it with the kids, it is short, simple and helpful: ‘What every child should know about prayer’ - Nancy Guthrie
Other ideas: RC Sproul has kids books, Kevin DeYoung, Chronicles of Narnia, etc.
5) Find out how other parents do stuff.
We aren’t alone in the joy and privilege of parenting. Let’s keep working together as a community of parents helping our kids to know and treasure Jesus. We don’t have to copy each other and we can’t make rules about THE way to parent…but we also need to realise we all need help and can learn from each other.
Here is an example of what we try and do as a family, again, i only share this as ONE example not THE example! It doesn’t have to look like this…but it has to look like something.
We aim to do a 5 minute family devotion in the morning before i start work, with bible reading and prayer.
Before starting homeschool Maddie will often do another bible time with the kids
At dinner we sing grace (e.g. Doxology), and talk about our days, trying to bring God into it.
Before bed we read a bible story from the kids bible.
While putting them down we get each kids to pray TSP prayers, (Thankyou, Sorry, Please)
We pray for them and sing them a hymn/song.
I hope all this helps you! Let’s saturate our kids in God from morning to evening and as we do that, we will find ourselves encouraged and refreshed as well! It ain’t easy, but by the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do it, and me must do it!
Much love,
Riley