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EPISODE #4
ESTABLISHING DAILY DEVOTIONS FOR KIDS – PART 1 (INTERVIEW)
SUMMARY OF TODAY’S PODCAST
A conversation with my 3 oldest children, Aaron, Melinda, and Madeline – about the establishment of daily devotions for kids.
To clarify, when I say “Daily devotions for kids” I don’t mean family devotions or devotions that parents do with their kids. I mean the establishment of your kids’ own personal habit of daily time with the LORD. This is a vital area of parenting – shepherding your child’s heart to love the LORD and truly want to spend time with Him daily. Over the years I have seen these 3 grow to love and pursue the LORD for themselves, and I wanted to ask them questions regarding how that happened, what the process was like, and what the LORD has done in their lives.
This is PART 1 of the interview – part 2 to follow in Episode 5.
OUTLINE OF THE PODCAST
- Introduction of the podcast and topic
- Introduction of Aaron, Melinda, and Madeline Green.
- Discussion of whether a child can truly come to faith in Christ at the age of 3 or 4 (as these 3 did).
- The beginning years of Aaron, Melinda, and Madeline’s experiences with daily devotions for kids.
- How and when the habit grew into a desire.
- Things the LORD has shown them along the way.
Links mentioned in this podcast:
The music track used in the Christian Home and Family Podcast is entitled, “Midian” and is from Adam Rey’s instrumental album Meat & Potatoes – Adam has generously given me permission to use his music, so please, support his generosity by checking out and purchasing his music at www.heyreyguitar.com – (no affiliate relationship, Adam’s just my friend.)
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Hey Carey, you got some great kids there! You mentioned that you don’t mean devotions that parents do with their kids. Did you NOT do devotions with your kids when they were younger? If you did, what did that look like? At what age do you start transitioning them do doing devotions by themselves? And what did that look like? Thanks in advance brother!
@JerryParker Hey Jerry… thanks for chiming in! Yes we DID do devotions with our children at the beginning, mainly to explain to them two things – 1) the heart behind it and 2) the various ways a person can go about it. This lasted maybe a week or two. It didn’t take long until even at a young age they were able to do it on their own. But that doesn’t mean it’s a “done deal” – we would check in with them pretty regularly with questions like, “What has God been saying to you in your Quiet Time?” or “Have you been having any difficulties or boring parts to your Quiet Time?” These simply open the door to a deeper conversation. Hope that helps!
@Carey Green What age are you talking about? A week or two of coaching just doesn’t make sense at age 2, 3, 4…. I mean we started basically at birth doing devotions with our kids. But when is a good age to start transitioning to doing devotions by themselves?
@JerryParker Sorry… our kids were reading on their own by the time we let them have their own devotions. Prior to that we did sit with them and have a reading/devotional time pretty regularly… my son standing here says it was daily. So what age did we transition? Once they were able to read well on their own. They were actually excited about it because if was a more “grown up” thing.