3 tips for starting ‘Bible times’ with your kids

Thinking about starting to read the Bible with your family can be daunting - Carl Laferton has 3 tips to help get you going

If you’re a Christian and have kids of preschool age, I think I can predict five things about you:

1. Life is busy.
2. You are tired.
3. It isn’t always/often easy.
4. You have a niggle in the back (or maybe front) of your mind about doing better (whatever that means) at raising your kids to know and love Jesus.
5. You find it hard to do anything with that niggle because of points 1-3 above!

What this article is not going to do is heap any guilt on you. I’m not going to use the words should or ought. What I’d like to do is just take that niggle and give you something positive and manageable to do about it—even while you have young kids and while you are busy, tired, and not always finding it easy.

Here’s the headline:

You can have great Bible times with little ones—and when they’re little is the best time to start!

Here are three tips for getting going and making it a win:

1. Make it part of your routine

Yours may be the kind of family that schedules everything in or the kind that is more take-it-as-it-comes. But in all families ……