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We used this devotional during a school year in which the kids had outgrown children's Bibles, but did not all seem old enough for just reading the Bible straight through. "Growing Little Women" is written as a resource for moms mentoring girls, one girl at a time, but we did it together as a family, including Dad, after dinners at home. My teen calls the stories, "cute," and the younger children seemed to like them as the best part of the studies. They all participated well with the fill-in-the-blank Bible verse sections, and the questions. We usually did either the story, or one or two questions a night. Sometimes the children had insightful, unexpected answers, all differing from each other.
The chapter on Being Brave and Making Friends came at apt times for this age group, as did the chapter on Choosing Leaders, during the national elections. I liked the chapters on Respect and Telling Others About Jesus.
In the end, we did not finish this study, doing only about 13 of the 16 "weeks," which actually took us much longer than a week each. We wove the week on Telling the Truth into a similar section in our following study. The reason we did not finish "Growing Little Women" is because school let out, and we wanted to do a more hand-on (time-intensive) devotional with the kids during the summer, called "Bible Study Fun." In the fall, we are anticipating graduating to just reading and discussing the Bible itself in our household. But these devotionals worked well for this age group on limited-time school nights.
The back says that these discussions are for girls from 7 to 10 years old, but we expanded that for our family from 8 to 14 years old. Realize their attention will wander, but they do absorb things from it. Our teen found some of it repetitive, but the other children didn't seem to mind.
If there is one chapter we didn't do, that I wish we had, it would have been the one on Kindness, and I may save that for another time.
The chapter on Being Brave and Making Friends came at apt times for this age group, as did the chapter on Choosing Leaders, during the national elections. I liked the chapters on Respect and Telling Others About Jesus.
In the end, we did not finish this study, doing only about 13 of the 16 "weeks," which actually took us much longer than a week each. We wove the week on Telling the Truth into a similar section in our following study. The reason we did not finish "Growing Little Women" is because school let out, and we wanted to do a more hand-on (time-intensive) devotional with the kids during the summer, called "Bible Study Fun." In the fall, we are anticipating graduating to just reading and discussing the Bible itself in our household. But these devotionals worked well for this age group on limited-time school nights.
The back says that these discussions are for girls from 7 to 10 years old, but we expanded that for our family from 8 to 14 years old. Realize their attention will wander, but they do absorb things from it. Our teen found some of it repetitive, but the other children didn't seem to mind.
If there is one chapter we didn't do, that I wish we had, it would have been the one on Kindness, and I may save that for another time.
