From: Tara Kinabrew

1. Encourage your child to develop friendships at Sunday School. One of the strongest benefits the church provides
your family is and extended “family” of both adult and childhood friends who support positive Christian values.
Consistent attendance makes it easy for meaningful friendships grow.

2. Be consistent in bringing your child to Sunday School so that he or she will benefit from the
biblical instruction. Children are surrounded by influences which are often in conflict with the truths of Scripture.
Sunday School can be your child’s most important hour out of every week

3. Cultivate friendships with your child’s teachers. Your support helps teachers do a good job!

4. Watch for and talk with your child about the take-home materials provided each week. A few minutes
of informal conversation at home can help to reinforce and apply the Bible truths you child has studied.

5. Learn the Bible memory verses with your child. Copy each week’s verse onto a folded index card
and set it on your breakfast table.

6. Ask a few questions about the Bible story to see what your child remembers and understands—and talk
about how the story illustrates familiar experiences at home or in the neighborhood. A good question is,
“What is one way you can do what that story teaches us?”

2. Sit near the front so your child can see easily. Children tend to pay better attention
and participate more the closer to the front they sit.

3. Before the service begins, take a few moments with your child to look over the order of
worship in the bulletin. Comment on one or two things—unfamiliar or difficult items, what the child
should do a certain time, why and item is included in worship, what meaning an item has for you.

4. Encourage your child to follow the order of the service. Ask your child to locate and
read over the hymns or choruses ahead of time in order to identify unfamiliar words and phrases.

5. Share a hymnal, bulletin and Bible with your child. Holding a book together helps the child
to feel a sense of participation.

6. If you are invited to shake hands with people nearby during the worship service, introduce your child
to those you greet. Most adults tend to converse over the tops of children’s head, making children
feel like outsiders.

7. Each week during the service ask you child to write answers to a question based on the
Scripture passage, songs and / or the sermon. Question might be, “What do you learn about God?
What do you learn about how God wants us to act?”

8. After reading Scripture or singing a song, provide pencil and paper for you child to write a
one-sentence summary of the Scripture or song. Some children may enjoy drawing pictures to
illustrate a song or Scripture passage.