Week 2: Dating

Virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light.

Doctrine and Covenants 88:40

This Week's Lesson
Click to view ideas from LDS.org (including talks, videos, quotes, and ways to integrate Duty to God and Personal Progress into your Family Home Evening)

Suggested song from primary chorister: Follow the Prophet, Children's songbook pg. 110

Treat idea: chocolate fondue!

Activity Ideas:

Daddy/Daughter Dates (or mommy/son)

Role Plays (Use "what would you do" scenarios)

Lesson on manners: Practice using manners (please, thank you, table manners, putting your phone down and looking them in the eye, etc.) and chivalrous actions (opening doors, helping with chair, etc.)

Etiquette dinner

Write the top 10 ways you can be a good date (or play date)

Teenagers: invite everyone to come with their best pick up lines to kick off the discussion on dating!

For the little ones....use puppets to lead a discussion on proper relationships/ways to act around kids of the opposite sex (school, play dates, church, etc.)

Couples: Plan out dates for each other for the next month...or create a date jar with ideas of dates you'd like to go on.

Parents share experiences of dating someone that made them a better person or helped them keep the commandments, and someone who didn’t

You tube video on For the Strength of Youth and Dating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F98MyXeKvU

New Era article with dating tips: http://www.lds.org/new-era/2000/11/idea-list-the-dos-of-dating?lang=eng

Here is a Mormon Channel video, probably better for teens: http://www.mormonchannel.org/we-will-stand/3-dating

Show the video: Families can be together forever.
https://www.lds.org/youth/learn/yw/marriage-and-family/family?lang=eng#video=families-can-be-together-forever

Ask why the roles of father and mother are important? Read from the Proclamation on the Family:

“By divine design, Heavenly Father gave men and women different gifts and abilities to help them fulfill complementary roles as husband and wife. “Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose. … Fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners” (“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign or Liahona,Nov. 2010, 129).

Have kids act out how mothers and fathers should treat one another (get out dress ups for this).

Ask how we find who we are going to marry. Talk about what dating is.

Ask what we can do now to prepare to become good parents (example: learn how to make friends with people of the opposite gender, learn how to compromise, learn how to show respect to the opposite gender, prepare spiritually...etc.)

PLEASE keep commenting with all your ideas for ALL ages! Enjoy! We enjoyed our first week of the challenge.

Note: The sister missionaries would love to join your individual families for FHE and have offered to give an example of how to hold FHE. 



Next week's lesson: Dress and Appearance