This month we teach the two and three-year-olds at our church, Bayview Baptist Church. Today we used the illustration of a fireman to show the children how they can help others. We told the story about how Paul's nephew warned his uncle of the plot against him in Acts 23.
Marisol sits and plays with the children. We enjoy talking with them. Sometimes we find their comments a bit alarming. The past two weeks some of them have been talking about bombs and blowing people up. Although I understand that "boys will be boys" and that some of them come from military families (I don't always know which ones), that is a bit disturbing to me because they are two and three. At what point do we desensitize our kids to violence in the world? I don't really think children that young understand the destruction brought about by bombs. We should probably weigh our words before talking about certain topics around them and guard their TV viewing a bit more.
This month we teach the two and three-year-olds at our church, Bayview Baptist Church. Today we used the illustration of a fireman to show the children how they can help others. We told the story about how Paul's nephew warned his uncle of the plot against him in Acts 23.
Marisol sits and plays with the children. We enjoy talking with them. Sometimes we find their comments a bit alarming. The past two weeks some of them have been talking about bombs and blowing people up. Although I understand that "boys will be boys" and that some of them come from military families (I don't always know which ones), that is a bit disturbing to me because they are two and three. At what point do we desensitize our kids to violence in the world? I don't really think children that young understand the destruction brought about by bombs. We should probably weigh our words before talking about certain topics around them and guard their TV viewing a bit more.
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