The Lesson:
This week, the Come, Follow Me for Individuals and Families manual asks us to read James. In the Latter Day Parables, Auggie and May get into a big argument. Mom sends them in their room to cool down while she finds a scripture to help the situation. After time alone, Mom brings the two together and tells them how tongues can be good and bad. We need to always use our tongues for good. May and Auggie say nice things to each other and feel better after.
As you tell the story, use the visuals provided for free in the Quick Clicks below. If your child can read, have him or her read from the pretend phone. Look at both photos provided below of tongues. One is a good tongue and one is a bad tongue. Can you guess which is which? Explain to your child why the tongue can do so much harm or so much good. Words are very powerful. Ask your child to try to apply this lesson and to work on saying good things instead of bad things.
What You Need:
- Cut-outs of Mom, Auggie, May, Smart Phone, and James 3 Scripture Screen. If you haven’t yet, download the free Original Latter Day Parable Family cut-outs to get your visuals for this week’s story. On the same page you can find your Smart Phone cut-out as well. Provided in the Quick Clicks is the James 3 Scripture Screen you can stick to your Smart Phone cut-out. Print, cut out, and laminate the cut-outs and then store them in your Come, Follow Me Binder for future use.
- “Good Tongue, Bad Tongue” story. Provided in the Quick Clicks below is a PDF document of the story that you can download for free. Print out the story and store it in your Come, Follow Me Binder.
- Pictures of tongues. Provided in the Quick Clicks below are pictures of tongues your child can look at to decide which picture is a good tongue and which picture is a bad tongue!
Quick Clicks:
For the Original Latter Day Parables Family, click here.
For the Smart Phone cut-out, click here.
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For more lesson ideas, click here to see The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ thoughts on the subject.