Attention-getting

For family home evening a couple weeks ago, we were talking about the lies Satan tells us, and the truths God tells us. Like probably all of us, our kids sometimes listen to those lies, and will repeat them to us in various forms. It is extraordinary how many of those lies have to do with confusing who we are; not believing in our own divine heritage, worth, and potential, and the hope we have in God's love for us. For me, knowing I truly am a daughter of God, and He loves me and knows me, and I truly have the power of Christ's atonement to change me, and there is always hope, makes all the difference.
Unfortunately, we are not perfect parents like God is (shocker, I know!), so our kid's first experience of parental love is definitely not divine. Unconditional, but flawed. Which can make some of Satan's lies seem true. Like when we get upset over something done wrong, and a kid believes we no longer love them.
Anyway, I hoped the lesson would stick, so how to make it stick in their memory?
Fire, of course!

We had a wall of truths, and then lies. We left the truths up, and burned the lies. It was pretty riveting.  A couple nights later Grace was upset and saying we didn't care about her, and Cameron was in their room telling her those were lies, and not to listen to them :)