Proclamation Principle: Marriage Between a man and a woman is ordained of God…but before marriage comes the courtship.
Lesson Objectives: With a 16-year old in the home, and one to follow shortly, we are all about the dating scene. This would be a good time to review For the Strength of the Youth as well as other church counsel on dating.
Opening Song: Choose the Right
Quote/Scripture of the Week: “Your circle of friends (I will add, those you date), will greatly influence your thinking and behavior, just as you will theirs. When you share common values with your friends (or dates), you can strengthen and encourage each other.” President Monson
Attention Activity: Print out this handout "How to be a first rate date," to review with the family during the lesson. You could make it into a quiz to see how they would answer prior to them seeing the list. Then each point could be discussed or a scenarios played out.
(I typed this up so that it could be printed out)
Activity: Dating Trial run through-"Savor the Flavors." The ideas presented here are fantastic. You could do the whole FHE lesson around their idea:
I loved her description of the evening:
'Our class title was SAVOR THE FLAVORS. We talked about the excitement that comes from dating all sorts of people {flavors} and waiting to settle down with just one flavor until an appropriate time. {pre-marriage}.
We talked about that there’s a flavor out there for everyone, and that you’ll never know exactly what you love without having had the chance to try several flavors in the past."
Maybe change the name of the "Speed Flirting" portion to something different as that's sounds a little awkward with family :) BUT still a great idea for them to learn how to converse and learn as much info about another person. Instead of "flirting" you could do the speed round and see how much info each person could gather about their partner in that amount of time. Person who gained the most information, is the winner of that round or something.
Activity: Dating Notebook- I REALLY love this idea as well, especially if your kids don't journal. This way they'd be able to record all of their fun/not-so-fun dating experiences. :) There's a lot of growth and wisdom that comes from dating.
- For those who cannot date yet but are youth age- here are some great ideas you could present instead found in "What Can we do if we like each other?"
- Adaptions for younger children instead of journals: Bust out the photo album of your courtship and share your story with the kids. My kids absolutely love seeing the pictures and hearing
some of the funny stories of our courtship. We also love to share our journey to the temple and why a temple marriage was so important to us. This gave them a better understanding of choosing people to date that have your own standards.
- If you have children who are dating age, here's a few site with some fun, budget-friendly ideas: here for some group date ideas, or 50 great ideas here, (this particular site says it's geared toward dating when married but I think almost all of them would work for youth age)
Refreshments: Ice cream sundaes or ice cream cones in a variety of flavors to tie into the lesson presentation
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