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Show DAILY HERALD Page6 Sunday, September 26; 2004 FAMILY FOCUS conference-theme- d family Nights to prepare their children for general conference should consider planning conference-theme- d family night lessons and activities for the Monday preceding the event. Parents can take time to talk about the details of what general conference is, where it is held and who will be speaking. The following family night activities can be adapted to fit the needs of individual families. LDS families who want rv ... .5 . V "wMftw" v ' I in- -' FRANK Yosh Komiya daughter, Lily, left, and son, Joyce. The family's topic for the evening was and his wife, Lynette, read about prayer to their itiIWBlTntlam Take a Conference Center tour Purpose: Help give your children a context for general conference. Once they realize the general authorities are speaking from a pulpit they have seen and in a building they have walked through, their interest may be piqued. Activity: The church's Conference Center is open for free tours Monday througfi Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Talk about general conference during the tour, and talk about the tour during general conference. While you're in Salt Lake City, visit Temple Square, the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and other sites that are often shown on TV during conference. Information: The Conference Center if located at 60 W. North Temple. Call (801) 2400075 for more ..information. first-han- d ma ,. i Make conference journals Play the match game Purpose: After talking to your children about the speakers they may hear at general conference, help them get excited to take notes or draw pictures as they listen. Purpose: Familiarize children with members of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Find details about the apostles' lives on the church's Web site, www.lds.org. Use mnemonic devices to remember details. You will need: At least two photos of each apostle. Cut cement or glue; scrapbook paper, white paper andor card stock; pens, crayons or paints; buttons, beads, feathers, stickers or other decorations You will need: Composition books; rubber out photos from the Ensign magazine, download them from the church's Web site, or collect extra newspapers from your neighbors (pictures of current apostles are on Page 13). Glue each picture to card stock if you wish. Activity: Turn the cards face down. Each player's turn consists of turning over two cards. If the cards match, name or a fact from the player must give the apostle's life to keep the cards. The one with the most cards at the end wins. Activity: a) Pick paper to cover the book, b) Measure the paper against the book and trim to fit. c) Use rubber cement to glue the paper to the book, d) Take a piece of card stock or a different pattern of paper and measure it to cover the spine of the book. Shape it to the spine and glue it over the first layer of paper, to e) Let children use pens, paints and glue-oh- s decorate the book. TRADITIONS A listeningear Area residents share their favorite conference memories BOTTDaily Heral() prayer and when one should pray. Set realistic expectations for your child's attentiveness during conference, experts say " if y Jill Fellow ." "When our children were little, we'd give them a pad of paper and they drew pictures in front of the TV while we watched conference. tt was a family time nice to stay in pajamas. Now, we invite the children over to eat with us." "We go to the Stake Center to watch conference, and we always have a good roast for supper af- terwards." Devin Anderson 19, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada missionary on his way to the Missionary Training Center "When I was grow- ing up we had to ten to conference while we were lis- we just got all the pillows out and sat and watched confeience. We had i ence weekend and have done that for the past 21 years, We watch conference, swim, go bike riding and relax." . dinner in betwpen Pete Carter sessions." 69, Springville 55, Lindon 27, Saratoga Springs I couples over confer- cleaning house on Saturday. On Sun-da- y, Sharon Gray art instructor with six other ' JanaLee Pickett BYU "My wife and go to Bear Lake to a con-d- o I supervisor at LDS Distribution Center retired ironworker " Mostly we sit to- gether as a family and watch conference and relax at home. We have waffles on Sunday, but we always have waffles on Sunday ... take notes and my mom takes notes. I'm always interested in what the prophet has to say." I Jeremy Gregory 18, Alpine college student DAILY HERALD Julie Haupt used to think getting her children to watch general conference was a lost cause. She would give them paper, pens and small toys to play with In front of the TV, but she assumed they were not listening or could not understand the speakers' messages. f Well, then this one day, one of my daughters looks up at me and says, 'Remember when that guy told this story in that talk?" " Haupt said. "She knew all about it, and I had no clue she was even listening." Children have different listening and attention thresholds, especially when it comes to watching or listening to eight to 10 hours of religious messages in one weekend. Robert Williams, a local child psychologist, said parents should look at their children's ages, development and behavioral histories and set reasonable goals, expectations and rewards for listening to general conference. See LISTENING, Page 8 I ' i - 1 . |