To start with, Little Man has a fairly short attention span on things he isn't directing. This is where all that mission training on how to teach one gospel topic in a clear CONCISE manner really comes in handy.
Then, Little Man has a very long attention span on something he is directing. (Can you say "WHY?")
But perhaps one of the most challenging aspects is that no matter where we do FHE or how clean the room is, there always seems to be something to distract his attention from the lesson. Even if that something isn't in the room, or house, or isn't a something, but a some-event or some-conversation, or some random thought that happened to cross his mind because of what we said.
And as parents, we must learn to work around those distractions or do our best to use them to our advantage.
One recent "use it to our advantage" occurred in our family not too long ago.
Because of our driveway, Jake and I have been planning on buying a 4-wheeler since we made an offer on the house. We are SO GRATEFUL to our wonderful family and neighbors who have come to our rescue and plowed us out each snow storm, but we still feel it is best for us to be as self-sufficient as possible. So we recently purchased our "snow plow."
And Little Man loves going on rides with Daddy.
Well, not too long ago, Daddy took Little Man out for a ride so I could get the FHE lesson ready. Only when they got home, Little Man did NOT want to get off the 4-wheeler. So instead of making Little Man come to FHE, we took FHE to him!
All 4 of us sat on the 4-wheeler and had our (3 minute) FHE lesson. And since Little Man was where he wanted to be, he was happy and attentive. He probably paid better attention that time than he has in any other lesson. Who knows, maybe we will have to fulfill Little Man's multiple requests since then to have FHE on the 4-wheeler :)
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