In the past years we have always listened to all four sessions of general conference. As our children have grown we have found that listening is a broad description of what we really do. Usually we would use the Internet to listen at home except for Sunday morning where we would head to the chapel. The sessions at home have been getting less quiet all the time and so this year we thought we would try a couple different things.
We read an article in the Ensign magazine that had a few ideas to get little ones to "listen" to conference. We have tried a couple of them, but I think the best one has been Candy Bingo. It is not at all like regular bingo. I made a poster with pictures to represent some gospel words. Whenever the children hear one of the words they get to pick a skittle or other small candy from the bowl. Man did they score with Elder Scott's talk on temples, and Elder Nelson's talk on prayer. They were even excited last night that there was another day of conference still to come. (I didn't take any candy to the chapel mind you.)
Emma is also excited that she gets to stay up from her nap for the afternoon session today. We had to keep asking her NOT to remind Benjamin that he had to take a nap and could not listen to conference. She was just so excited to be big enough to enjoy it all.
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