{"id":882,"date":"2011-04-13T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-devotional-materials-for-6-10-year-olds-part-ix-of-many\/"},"modified":"2015-08-29T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T16:19:13","slug":"when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-devotional-materials-for-6-10-year-olds-part-ix-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-devotional-materials-for-6-10-year-olds-part-ix-of-many\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen You Rise Up\u201d: Faith in the Mornings\u2014 Devotional Materials for 6-10 Year Olds (Part IX of Many (!))"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up<\/u>\u201d<\/strong> Deuteronomy 6:7<\/p>\n

I am going to list a few key products that we have used for devotionals for this age group. We generally kept morning devotions\/read alouds shorter (thirty minutes or fewer) since we had other \u201ccharacter lessons\u201d (i.e. chores!) and individual devotions to attend to as well. I will discuss the \u201cunder six year old\u201d or lengthier types of materials later\u2014though many listed in this post would work for youngers and\/or olders. <\/p>\n

As a rule of thumb, our non-schoolers (i.e. before six years old since we began kindergarten at age six and first grade at age seven), did not get up for morning devotions. I had other reading times with them at various points in the day\u2014and they were in the evening devotionals\/read alouds.<\/p>\n

At this age, you will want to lengthen your faith reading time as much as you have time for and the children have attention spans for\u2014and allow plenty of time for discussion and answering questions. On the lower end of this spectrum, your child may not be ready to sit for longer picture books or shorter chapter books, but keep trying! As an aside, any read aloud times that you instill in your children will help them to have longer attention spans in other scenarios, such as school and church. (Again, our morning times were always shorter than our ones later in the day.)<\/p>\n

1. Bible<\/p>\n

a. The Bible itself! We like to read aloud from Proverbs oftentimes in the mornings. Moreover, my husband has a special time with our guys called \u201cBible talks\u201d in which he and the boys just read a portion of the Bible and discuss it for a few minutes. No other books needed\u2014just \u201cwhat does this mean to you?\u201d and \u201cwhat do you think this is saying?\u201d You might start with familiar Bible stories in the Old Testament and Jesus\u2019 parables in the New Testament.<\/p>\n

b. \u201cThe Picture Bible\u201d by David C Cook\u2014this was listed in the preschool section, but children up to age twelve or so will enjoy this comic-book style Bible. Ray read this whole Bible aloud to each child when he or she was around age four. Then we \u201cassigned\u201d this Bible (in bite-sized pieces each day) to each child when he or she was around age eleven or twelve to read to himself or herself for personal devotions. https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Picture-Bible-Story-Book-Ed\/dp\/1555139906<\/a><\/p>\n

c. Family Bible Library\u2014I reviewed this book earlier in the year. This is a wonderful complete ten volume set of Bible stories. Read the review in full. If you have children ten and under, I highly recommend you find this set used, buy it, and use it every day. (That\u2019s what we did! I read it to the kids when they turned four (sort of after Ray did \u201cThe Picture Bible\u201d), then when each child became a fluent reader, between nine and eleven or so, he or she read the entire set to himself (or aloud to a little sibling). https:\/\/positiveparenting3-6-5.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/day-fifty-nine-think-of-yourself-as.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up\u201d Deuteronomy 6:7 I am going to list a few key products that we have used for devotionals for this age group. 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