“Impress them upon your children. Talk about them when you sit at home, when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” Deuteronomy 6:7
Teachable moments arrive when we are looking to lead our children. I wanted to start a list to get each other thinking about these moments. I know I only have 19 readers out there so we need everyone to add few more teachable moments. Here are a few places where teachable moments happen for the Gaston’s. Look forward to hearing yours
- Reading
- Playing Wii
- Board Games
- Sports
- Going to the park
- Movies
- Swimming
- Dance Recitals
- Washington Nationals Baseball game
- Water skiing
- Watching Little House on the Prairie
- Going to the beach
More teachable moments:
*Shopping
*Eating out as a family (or even at our dinner table at home)
*Baking cookies together!
*Welcoming new neighbors
*Walking the dog(s)
*Playdates
*Doctor appointments
*returning neighbors’ trashcans
*grocery shopping
*serving/encouraging siblings
*praying for police, ambulances & firefighters when they pass us
Holiday
Helping with Homework
After a visit from a friend
After a visit to a friends house
Vacationing
In the car (everyone spends a lot of time there, you see a lot of situations, and you have a captive audience!)
~ during the news and something uncomfortable is said…
~ hanging out in the backyard around the bonfire
~ when one child comes home in tears
~ while doing their hair
~ making a meal together
~ fishing
~ and shopping
Here are some teachable moments for the Bishop family:
–Visiting a museum
–Going to the driving range
–A Washington Nationals game
–Watching the Brady Bunch
–Playing golf on the Wii
–Going out to dinner
–Getting up at 4:00 am to watch a meteor shower
Brother Todd, have you already replaced the tire? Remember I have a connetion on used, sometimes almost new tires real inexpensive through M&M. Paul Ps allot of readers do not always need to respond by writing. 19 is too small a number. Teachable momements are any time you find the three of us in the same room at the same time!
Washing the car
Washing the dog
Watering the lawn.
All three may very well end up in a “water fight” which is in itself a “teachable moment” !!
Another teachable moment:
Catching fireflies with our grandkids.
Teachable moments for my daughters have included:
-Creation Festival
-Christian concerts
-Listening to Christian music
-Playing sports together
-Hanging out with them and their friends
-Giving them allowance and teaching them to save and tithe
-Being there when life is “unfair”
-Discussing the impact of wrong choices every time a celebrity or someone they know gets into trouble
-Discussing the impact of wise choices every time God blesses us or someone we know
Teachable moments for my three year old would be:
playing with friends
riding bikes
sitting at the dinner table while giving thanks.
remembering his little sister Sarah in Heaven
while riding in the car.
Our teachable (and most hair raising) moments are when we watch Life of the American Teenager on television with my daughters.
caring for our family pets
traveling from campground to campground
recalling at least one thing we are thankful for at dinner each night