Cheaper By The Dozen

My children and I watched this movie, but it was the 1950s version. This is a very good movie. I liked it much better than the Steve Martin version.

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When my son saw all the children, he let me know he wanted me to have 12 children too. He also said he would pray to Heavenly Father so I would have that many. When my husband got home I had to hurry to church for our Christmas program practice, but when I got home my husband said something about having 12 children. I can't really remember how we got on the subject of babies, but when I asked him if he had spoken to our son he said no. I am a bit freaked out because both of the men in our family (on the same day) mentioned me giving birth to 12 children. I hope my son forgets to pray about this request. This is one prayer that can wait until the next life to be answered.

A Boy Baby

A couple of months ago my son began to ask if he could have a boy baby. I told him he could pray and ask Heavenly Father to send him a boy baby. He ran towards his room and was there for a little while. He came back to tell me, "I prayed and asked Heavenly Father for a boy baby, Mommy."

After I found out I was pregnant again, I told him about it, and he said, "Is it a boy baby? I prayed and asked Heavenly Father for a boy baby." I let him know it is too soon to know if it's a boy or a girl. I must admit I am worried if it is not a boy, but either way boy or not, it will be a good lesson in prayer.

Fruits of Our Labors

It is such a wonderful blessing to see the fruits of your labor when sharing and seeing the gospel in action with your children.

My 4-year-old son is starting to compose, remember the order, and words that should be used during prayers. The other day he gave the blessing on our dinner meal. It was wonderful to hear him use his "thou" and "thee" instead of "you." He is asking for Heavenly Father to bless family members, and he is thankful for his toys, Daddy's job, and his siblings.

Heavenly D'Father

My baby girl has been sick and has a heat rash. She has been bothered by the rash for some days now. My 4-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter were asking why she was crying so much, and I told them why. I mentioned we needed to pray for her to get better. My son said we need some oil to put on her head. I told him only Daddy could do it because he holds the priesthood.

Then they said, "We will pray for her." They went to their room and got on their knees and prayed. My son came back and said, "I prayed and asked Heavenly Father to make her better."

My daughter came in and said, "I prayed to Heavenly D'Father and asked Him to take the bumps off her and send them to the spirit world."

On Your Knees

Sometimes I wonder what goes on in a child's mind. Where do they get some of their ideas?

One night after reading our scriptures as a family, we all knelt down to pray. On this night, Dad decided to use the living room couch as his "alter". After saying, "Let's pray," Dad knelt down in front of the couch. Our son looking down at Dad, decided his back looked inviting and jumped on his back. I thought he wanted to play with Daddy, but I was wrong. After getting on Dad's back, he knelt down, folded his arms, bowed his head reverently then he closed his eyes.

A Sick Mommy

From a friend:

Mommy-"Mommy's feeling sick today."

Son-"Jesus can heal you."

Mommy-"Pray for Mommy."

He put his hands on her shoulder, and said, "Jesus loves you!" Then closed his eyes and prayed, "Jesus thank you for this day. Amen!"

Shortly thereafter, the Mommy began to feel better.

A Prayer for Reverence

I had two children in my class during a holiday weekend. I wanted to start class with an opening prayer, but the boy was being irreverent. I asked him to be reverent for the prayer. He said, "I only know how to be silly. I like to be silly."

After repeated attempts to get him to be calm, he finally sat still enough for the little girl to pray. Here is her prayer:

"Heavenly Father, thank thee for our class, and help Fred* not be silly..."


*not his name.

The Little Red-Head

My husband and I were called to teach the Sunbeams (age 3 & 4) class in our ward. We had been encouraging the children to close their eyes when they prayed. We would ask one child to open the class by praying and another to close it in prayer. Before each prayer began we would remind all of the Sunbeams to please close their eyes when praying.

A sweet little red-headed girl was offering up the opening prayer. Here is what she said:

"Dear Heavenly Father, we thank thee for our teachers, please bless us to be reverent, please bless Earl (named changed to protect the innocent) to close his eyes, ummm.......bless our teachers, bless Earl to close his eyes....ummmm, help us learn, Earl is still not closing his eyes...."

My husband would open his eyes to see if she had her eyes opened, but every time he looked up her eyes were closed, but Earl's eyes were not.

Grandma's House

My nephew was having dinner at his Grandma's house. It was time to say the prayer for the food. He was eager to say the prayer, and asked it he could do it. Here's some of his prayer:

"Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us all to get together as a family. Please bless this food and if it's poisoned please let it not harm our bodies...."