The Obedience Game - Character Development Series
Shhh! It's not really a game. Don't tell your kids. It's training.
Obedience "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." - Luke 11:28
If you present an idea with enthusiasm, involvement and call it a game, they are generally in for the fun. It's a simple idea that translates into real life obedience. Who isn't a parent who desires a little more of that from our kids? What is important about obedience? If they never learn to obey you, they are going to find it really hard to obey God. You want to create your family to be an earthly reflection of our relationship with God. God has his "rules" he wants you to learn to obey because he wants the best outcome for our lives. He doesn't love you more or less based on your obedience, but life can go a lot smoother as your trust and obey Him through the both the times of fun and excitement as well as the times of suffering and pain. If you think about the pain imposed on you in this life, most of it comes directly from someone stepping out of a desire to obey God. By training our kids to obey us, we would hope it would translate into their own relationships with God as well as their relationship with others.
The Obedience Game
I just made this game up, and it is really simple. The rules? You get a point if you obey right away, completely, correctly and with a happy heart. I would then give them fun things to do. Well, mostly fun things. I slipped in a few helpful things as well. Here are some of the examples I asked of them: run to the front door and then come back and give me a high five, jump up and down 5 times, run around the house, give your brother a hug, sit on the piano bench, crawl and touch the toy car and come back, put your two dolls on the stairs away in your room, go to your room and fold one item of clothing and put it away, go find a pair of sunglasses and put them on, go find a ball and throw it to me, etc. After we played a while with those rules (going one at a time), we made it into a competition. I asked them to do similar things, but they had to race to see who could obey first. After the game was over, I made sure to tie it into real life reminding them that in our family we obey right away, all the way, and with a happy heart.
Obedience "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." - Luke 11:28
If you present an idea with enthusiasm, involvement and call it a game, they are generally in for the fun. It's a simple idea that translates into real life obedience. Who isn't a parent who desires a little more of that from our kids? What is important about obedience? If they never learn to obey you, they are going to find it really hard to obey God. You want to create your family to be an earthly reflection of our relationship with God. God has his "rules" he wants you to learn to obey because he wants the best outcome for our lives. He doesn't love you more or less based on your obedience, but life can go a lot smoother as your trust and obey Him through the both the times of fun and excitement as well as the times of suffering and pain. If you think about the pain imposed on you in this life, most of it comes directly from someone stepping out of a desire to obey God. By training our kids to obey us, we would hope it would translate into their own relationships with God as well as their relationship with others.
The Obedience Game
I just made this game up, and it is really simple. The rules? You get a point if you obey right away, completely, correctly and with a happy heart. I would then give them fun things to do. Well, mostly fun things. I slipped in a few helpful things as well. Here are some of the examples I asked of them: run to the front door and then come back and give me a high five, jump up and down 5 times, run around the house, give your brother a hug, sit on the piano bench, crawl and touch the toy car and come back, put your two dolls on the stairs away in your room, go to your room and fold one item of clothing and put it away, go find a pair of sunglasses and put them on, go find a ball and throw it to me, etc. After we played a while with those rules (going one at a time), we made it into a competition. I asked them to do similar things, but they had to race to see who could obey first. After the game was over, I made sure to tie it into real life reminding them that in our family we obey right away, all the way, and with a happy heart.
More Obedience Lessons in our Character Development Series Obedience Word Ring Obedience "I Will" Statements Obedience with Veggie Tales Obedience in Books Obedience and Following Street signs (don't know what happened to the pictures) Obeying Mom's Directions Obedience with Mother May I and Simon Says Obedience "Yes, Mommy"
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