Teaching Your Child How To Think Good Thoughts
Does your child struggle with thinking about good things? Honestly, no matter what our age is what we are thinking about matters.
In this lesson plan, the child will learn what the Bible says about good thoughts. It includes an object lesson and a study guide to guide the child through their learning.
Before we go any further, let me introduce myself to you. My name is Kaycee Hobbs and I am the mama to seven beautiful children. As you can imagine, the good thoughts conversation happens often and it something I am reminding them of frequently.
Let me share with you how this lesson plan came about. For years, we had the privilege of being foster parents and so as you can imagine we dealt with a lot of bad thoughts. Because of the trauma the children suffer, I wanted to do something that could help them sort through their thoughts.
It´s one thing to say, “Stop thinking that!” and quite another thing to actually do it. I wanted to give them a constructive way to get all those bad thoughts out and replace them with good thoughts.
When you are sad or scared, do you know how hard it is to think about good things? I have found my mind wants to play the bad things over and over until I don´t know what to do.
When we did this activity, it gave the child the opportunity to think of good thoughts so they could turn to them when they were scared. Then when they were feeling sad, I could remind them of what we had learned.
There were a few instances when I would do this exercise with the child on a daily basis so they could learn to make a new habit of good thoughts.
Our thoughts often result in action and that is why it is so important we watch what we think about.
In this printable activity you will find:
• Instructions for teaching the lesson
• Character Faces
• The Study Guide
• Philippians 4:8 Bible Verse Sign
I like to keep my supply list simple so that hopefully you have the supplies on hand.
Thanks for reading! I pray good thoughts for you today!
