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- Children will probably not yet have started to reflect on their family life and we need to be careful not to make them feel bad about their families especially as they may have no power in making decisions about how those families are. The best situation for talking about family life is a small group or one-to-one where lots of trust has been developed and where the child sets the agenda by talking about what they want to talk about. A teaching session on families can helpfully open up the subject for children who need or want to talk about their families.
- Run a "My Family" painting competition. Create a collage of the results. Older competitors could be asked to write a description to go with it. Have an attractive prize. This or something similar could be done in conjunction with a local school or newspaper and could yield interesting patterns and opinions.
- Talk a little about how the church is a family where all ages matter, and explain that the church leaders want to know how all the different parts of the family feel about things. Use the sheets "Something I would like..." and/or "I have a dream..." for them to write or draw their ideas.
- If a church event for all ages is being planned, ask the children for ideas of things to do, games to play, food to eat, etc (rather than leaving it all to the adults to plan). Reflect afterwards on how the event was different from what might otherwise have been done, and whether that affected its success.
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