I love this time of year so much that I really would press pause on it if I could. The leaves, the fun jackets and boots, the soup and other warm yummy foods, the break my air conditioner gets before I turn on the heat next month . . . October is a beautiful month! But I know you want to know what your girls are up to this month, so here’s a snapshot:
Top Movies this past weekend
1. Jacka$$ 3D [R]
2. Red [PG-13] (I hope to have a report on this one for you next week.)
3. The Social Network [PG-13]
4. Secretariat [PG] (Good, wholesome family movie, according to my coworker with a tween and a teen. Her tween liked it a lot.)
5. Life as We Know It [PG-13] (I also hope to have a report on this one for you soon.)
6. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole [PG] (While I do have an affinity for owls thanks to my college sorority, I do not have an affinity for animated movies about them and probably won’t be seeing this one. However, I did hear from one of our readers that she and her tween daughter enjoyed it. She said it was a good story with good themes and recommended it to parents and kids ages 8+.)
7. The Town [R]
8. My Soul to Take [R]
9. Easy A [PG-13]
10. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps [PG-13]
Top Songs this Week
1. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (love this song!)
2. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (can't stand this song due to its content!)
3. Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love
4. Nelly - Just A Dream
5. Taio Cruz - Dynamite
6. Far East Movement - Like a G6 (This song has an infectious sound. Even if you’ve never heard it, I can almost guarantee your girls are singing it. And quoting it on Facebook to each other. [Or maybe those are just some of the girls I know . . .] P.S. A "G6" is a really nice private jet.)
7. Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)
8. Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me
9. Enrique Iglesias - I Like It
10. Ke$ha - Take It Off
I need your help!
So we listened to the survey you guys took awhile back, and LifeWay is releasing a new girls’ Bible study next spring on the Proverbs 31 woman. We’re super excited about the format (more journal-like, which we think girls will really love) and the content. It’s going to include in-depth Bible study and will empower your girls to lead their own small groups and/or make this into a mother-daughter study with their own mom.
Right now, I’m working on the teaching plans and would love your input. Let me know about any mother-daughter activities that you’ve seen work well. I'm looking for activities for a mother-daughter pair to do to foster discussion as they do the Bible study together. Prayer activities, physical activities, craft ideas . . . whatever you’ve got, I’d love to hear it! Just leave a comment or e-mail me at emily[dot]cole[at]lifeway[dot]com. Thanks!
1st - I find it unfortunate that you won't go see Guardians. It was a wonderful movie based on good books for my tween daughter when those are sometimes difficult to come by. Good themes... good story. I highly recommend it for parents and children 8+ years.
Okay - Activities.
- Take a mission trip together and tag on a side trip to spend some extra time together.
- find a craft type project you can do together/at the same time for someone else. i.e. knit baby blankets for a maternity home.
- encourage a daughter old enough to babysit to offer free services to single moms... or if your daughter is not old enough to do it on her own, do it with her.
- Make a prayer journal of "This I Pray for You" prayers for your daughter. Either through highlighting scriptures prayed in a Bible or a seperate journal. Plan to give it to your daughter at a milestone birthday (13 or 16) during a blessing party.
(Sorry - so much is fresh in my mind as I'm preparing to speak to some moms of daughters with my church next weekend.)
Donna,
Thank you SO much for your awesome ideas for activities!
Also, I'm glad you can recommend the movie Legend of the Guardians. Thank you for sharing that you and your daughter enjoyed it. I'm sure our other blog readers appreciate your recommendation if they too were interested in seeing it.
As a girls ministry we did a mother daughter tea. The mother-daughter teams were able to decorate their table the way they wanted and were able to bring friends. We partnered with a girls home and they were able to participate. We had a mother-daughter pair sing and speak. It was a great mother-daughter bonding time.
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