Preparing for Young Women's

Preparing for Young Women's  

It took a long time trying to decide on the activities that we could do to help prepare the girls in becoming part of the Young Women's program.  And I kept thinking about the "B-Attitudes"  I kept thinking that it might be too mature for these girls- but the way it kept coming to my mind it must be the right time to talk about it.  It was given to the youth so long ago- these girls weren't even born when the talk was given and yet I couldn't think of a better time to introduce it to the girls.  

I couldn't come up with a better lesson than to read the majority of the talk to them... 

 "A Prophet’s Counsel and Prayer for Youth" by President Gordon B. Hinkley

We did a wall plaque with all 6 plus 3 more that have always been spoken highly by President Hinkley.  We got our vinyl from Annette- Thanks You did a great job!!

This is my Daughter's plaque,  all of the girls did a great job.  they were so pleased with what they created!

It was wonderful!

Baby Sitting First Aid Basics -(simple)

As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we recognize that both our temporal well-being and our spiritual well-being are important.  By learning how to avoid accidents and how to take care of some common accidents, we become better prepared to protect and take good care of our temporal bodies.  It is also important that we have some basic first aid skills.  When we are prepared, we are better able to serve and bless others as well as ourselves.

Just like the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke10:29–37) we need to know that caring for others is not only important it is a responsibility.

Most babysitting jobs go smoothly and the worst thing that happens is a fight over the last Popsicle.  But for the rare times when an emergency does happen, you need to be ready to handle it.  That means thinking ahead and planning for anything that could happen.

Be Prepared!

It may seem scary to think about this stuff — it certainly reminds you of this big responsibility that babysitting is.  Its not likely you'll ever need to react to a serious emergency, just knowing what to do can help you feel more in control and confident.  Plus, knowing things like CPR or the proper way to do the Heimlich maneuver could give you an edge over other babysitters: Parents feel much safer when their sitters know these lifesaving techniques.

Some emergencies — such as choking or seizures — require that you know the what to do.  Before you even begin babysitting, it's a good idea to learn basic first aid, the Heimlich maneuver (for choking), and infant and child CPR.  These allow you to begin providing emergency care to a child while you are waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

I found the a lot of the following information at : http://kidshealth.org/  I have-however, changed a few things to better suit what I wanted to talk about.  

Baby Sitting

Baby Sitting Part 1

I found an article written by V. JEANE WOOLFENDEN entitled "Tending" in the July issue of the New Era back in 1972, I took most of it from there and revised it to better fit our needs today.

 I plan to share this with my own kids and also share it with my Activity day girls.  

*Reminder- this blog is written for fun and is in NO WAY responsible for a babysitting job gone bad!  I am simply putting ideas out there to help with learning, and becoming a better and more effective babysitter.  Listed here are only a few ideas to help with babysitting and in no way want to suggest that this is all you need to know about babysitting.  If you are planning to babysit- talk to your own parents, or leaders on what to do to be better, and if possible inquire at your local 4-H Extension Service to see if a class is provided to better educate yourself, your child, or others to become a more competent sitter or caregiver.

Serving Others

Have I Done any Good in the World Today?

I am an Activity Day's leader in my ward and we (my companion, the girls and I) thought for one of our "Serving Others" activities, we would do a scavenger hunt.  Really this activity could be modified to the Young Women or Young Men, or even your Family Home Evenings (FHE). 

There are a lot of ideas out there that consist of splitting up into groups and going house to house finding service projects to do, and maybe even racing to see who could accomplish more faster- but we don't have that kind of time or didn't want to rush this activity- so when I found this idea online here at a cute site called Emily's LDS Activity Day ideas.  I thought it would really work well for us.

We All Have Different Talents and Abilities

Singing and Sharing
Developing Talents

I am Serving in my Ward as the Activity Day Leader, but this as well as other post I have can certainly be used for FHE, YW, YM, and just plain for fun.  I just hope that this will help someone else to magnify your callings too.

I found a lesson in Gospel Principles Manual that was going to be perfect for us to help teach the idea about how developing our talents will serve our Heavenly Father.

Valentine's Day Scripture Chase

Learning and Living the Gospel

So we wanted to come up with a fun way to do a scripture chase.  We found scriptures that fit with a Valentines theme... So we thought conversational hearts was super cute-- the girls worked together to match up the hearts to the scriptures and find the answers.




We divided up the girls into 2 groups to race with each other   They received the scripture reference  then they had to read it out loud, run to the candy bowl, pick out the conversational heart that it best matched with, run back to the group and read the next scripture.

The first team to complete this game won a sticker- I am sure we could have found something better- but stickers are fun!

Afterwards we went into the kitchen to decorate cupcakes with hearts and candy sprinkles.

These girls are super fun!!

Planning Ahead

Organizing the outline for the year-

I find that if I have made a plan...  then even if change has to happen I am not frazzled and stressed out!

We made a folder for each girl in Activity Days.

I got the clipart from Melonheads LDS Illustrating

In this folder we give them each their own "Faith in God" booklet,  a calendar of events- a list of what we will be doing for the next 6 months- the other class ( 8-9 year old's) made up a whole year in advanced... but for me I will stick to 6 months.- Is that bad?  I don't know- maybe I could stretch myself... But I think I will do what I can and add to that later.  I can't overwhelm myself-
Dang... think about this I am starting a blog at the same time... I think 6 months will be fine... right?