New Friend Magazine Features Help Families Learn Together
To encourage learning and teaching as a family in the home, each issue of the Friend magazine provides activities, suggestions, and ideas that parents can use for family home evening, family scripture study, and other informal teaching opportunities. Beginning in...
Mormon Channel Kids Mobile App
Mormon Channel Kids is a mobile app from the Church made especially for children. This story book app will entertain curious minds and busy fingers with uplifting, interactive tales. Kids can read to themselves, hear from a narrator, and play within each short story....
Christmas Activities for Children
The website for the Friend magazine (friend.lds.org) offers coloring pages, videos, stories, and activities that celebrate the birth of the Savior.
Prophet Cards for Children
The Friend magazine provides a series of cards about each of the prophets that children can use to learn more about our modern-day prophets. You can cut them out of the December 2014 magazine or download them and print them.Kids Tell the Christmas Nativity Story
Christmas is a time when we can all learn from a child’s gratitude and love for Jesus Christ. See the meaning and the story of Christmas through the eyes of children in the video “Kids and Christmas.” In the video “Picture a Christmas: Kids Tell the...
Keeping Kids Safe on Facebook
The Facebook page Help Your Teens Play it Safe offers a few tips parents can use to keep their kids safe on Facebook. Facebook lets you control the audience of your posts. Therefore, encourage your kids to review their privacy settings and to make sure they consider...
Teaching Children About Bullying
The article “The Bad-News Kid” in the August issue of the Friend magazine teaches children how to be nice to others and not shun them. Here are other resources about bullying: The article “My Dad, My Friend” from the June is a great story about not bullying at church....
Home-Centered Approach for Teaching the Gospel
I would love to hear your ideas about a home-centered approach for teaching the gospel, with Church programs playing a support role. We are taught that “the home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place.” That means that parents...
Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Teaching Kids About Pornography
The new book Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids by Kristen A. Jenson gives parents a way to talk to their kids about a very difficult topic in an honest, upfront way that your kids can understand. It is a read-aloud story about a mom...
Annual Auxiliary Training: Learning and Teaching in the Home and the Church
Annual training for stake and ward auxiliary leaders is now available online at annualtraining.lds.org. Improving Learning and Teaching in the Home and the Church The training material is focused on principles that guide learning and teaching in the Savior’s way....
Resources Help Parents Prepare Children for Baptism
The Church provides resources to help parents in their responsibility to prepare their children to be baptized and to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The article “Resources Help Parents Prepare Children for Baptism” lists several principles and...
Teaching Children to be Good Friends
The article “A Friend in Me” in the April issue of the Friend magazine teaches children about including other people, especially people who could use a friend. Another good resource for teaching children how to get along with others is the video shown...
Children’s Activities for LDS General Conference
The Church provides several General Conference activities for children at ConferenceGames.lds.org in multiple languages to help them enjoy and learn more from listening to general conference: “>A General Conference Notebook for children to write or draw about...
Talking with Kids about Bad Media
Discussing things with your kids now can help them be prepared for events in the future. The February issue of the Friend magazine has the following ideas for children about what to do if they see something bad on a phone, TV, computer, or game device, or in a book or...Follow on social media