Thank you for this article highlighting the importance of take home papers. Years ago I had a student who said to me "I don't know why you give those to me when my mother just throws them out," which has pretty much been the reaction of most parents throughout my many years of teaching Sunday School despite efforts to communicate and urge cooperation. Often it is difficult for parents to see the importance of the partnership with those in children's ministry and our busy, cluttered lives play into this difficulty. The other difficulty is that the more children one has, the greater the number of "lessons" a parent has to focus on and it would be helpful to have a curriculum whose scope and sequence is the same across the children's ministry curriculum. I know that there are problems with this approach, but it would make it easier for parents to follow through on one story as opposed to multiples and would strengthen the partnership between the church and those parents.
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Thank you for this article highlighting the importance of take home papers. Years ago I had a student who said to me "I don't know why you give those to me when my mother just throws them out," which has pretty much been the reaction of most parents throughout my many years of teaching Sunday School despite efforts to communicate and urge cooperation. Often it is difficult for parents to see the importance of the partnership with those in children's ministry and our busy, cluttered lives play into this difficulty. The other difficulty is that the more children one has, the greater the number of "lessons" a parent has to focus on and it would be helpful to have a curriculum whose scope and sequence is the same across the children's ministry curriculum. I know that there are problems with this approach, but it would make it easier for parents to follow through on one story as opposed to multiples and would strengthen the partnership between the church and those parents.