For FHE this year I am focusing on "Building Character" I found vinyl saying at wood connection that saysIn faith, In purity, word,and spirit . I put them on a frame that I painted black with a picture of Christ in the middle. Each week we will talk about a characteristic that can fit into those categories. I got this idea because I was reading in a book called "Questions kids ask about sex." It talked a lot about teaching our children character traits that are positive. I loved that book, it says how in this day and age you don't have a choice to wait to talk about sex. Either the media through billboards, movies, tv, music and so on will teach them, or you can. Anyway it talks a lot about ages and stages children go through up until they are teenagers and some of the false core beliefs people thought when they were younger. I personally think if you wait too long, your kids won't want to talk to you and they will be disgusted. If you start early age appropriately they grow up realizing that it is normal. I am teaching about affection, character, and the negative side of sex, meaning I found an awesome book at Desert Book about pornography. Everything you ever needed to say to your kids about it is in this book. It's called "The Trap" and talks about a little boy who went to close to a bee hive and how it ties in. Anyways, Now with that being said, right now I am teaching my kids the first character trait on my list... Honesty. I printed out a picture of Cinderella and Spiderman and asked the kids what they were. They are Characters that they associate with. I then asked what makes them characters? DO they hit others? Steal? say mean things to people who don't look like them? They all said "NO" really loud. I then proceeded to talk about how we want to build good traits in our personality. I showed them a picture of Pinocchio and asked why his nose grew. I went on to tell them some stories about honesty and then we played the Hot or Cold game. I wanted to stress that when you tell a lie, even if you say JUST KIDDING at the end, it still is a lie and can hurt others. I played a song while showing pictures of honest people in the scriptures and told them I would play the song this whole week. I then wrote quotes and put them on cute paper around the house. For instance I wrote "BE HONEST" HONEST HEARTS BRING HONEST ACTIONS" "HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY" and so on. So far it has seemed to work and I am working on next week's trait. Here is the song if you wanted to use it, Jenny Phillips "HONEST" song.