I hope I can help you . . . understand how powerful your individual actions can be in strengthening your home and family, no matter what your circumstances.

Conference Talk:

For more information on this topic read “Strengthen Home and Family,” by Mary N. Cook, Ensign, Nov 2007, 11–13

Song:

“Happy Family,” Children’s Songbook, p. 198.

Scripture:

And they shall also teach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord. (D&C 68:28)

Lesson:

Gather your favorite baby picture of everyone in your family. Show each picture to the family and have them guess who each baby is. Provide hints as needed. Tell stories about what each person was like as a baby or little child. Explain that families are just like a really good cookie recipe. Alone, none of the ingredients taste very good (except the sugar). But together, they make something wonderful, something that makes us happy. Alone, a daddy can’t do a very good job, but when he has help from a mommy, they can make a happy family. And when children want to help their parents, the family can be wonderful.

Activity:

Measure out each ingredient for the cookie recipe (see below) separately and put in plastic sacks or small bowls. Give each person in your family an ingredient or two. Tell everyone to eat his or her “treat.” Act surprised when they don’t want to eat the individual ingredients. Then let everyone pour his or her ingredient into a large mixing bowl and take turns mixing it until the dough is ready to put on a cookie sheet. (It is best if you mix together the first five ingredients, then add the remaining ingredients.)

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