This is the first "Toddler Tuesday". Once a month on a Tuesday I will post ideas relating to teaching toddlers the Bible.
1. Don’t Feel Silly
When sitting down to read my toddler from a children's Bible I would at times feel silly. Just 5 minutes earlier my child was doing something really foolish, like playing in the toilet. Now I'm talking to her about God? Adults have a hard time grappling with these topics, how is she going to understand? But then I realized that I don’t need to feel silly teaching my toddler about such big issues. She won't understand everything right now, but she can start to know a loving God. She will have a lifetime of growing in understanding of God. That beautiful journey of understanding can start right now at 1 and 2 years old. Why wait?
"but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.” Jeremiah 9:24 ESV