Life Changing Book

As a little gift to the family, I bought the Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families. It is a rather large book and is over 100 pages longer than the regular Book of Mormon. The book has pictures in it as well as it highlights words that children might not understand and provides definitions of those words. I gave the book to the family when they came out to Salem and we have been reading it just about every night as a family. It has been great! The boys seem to enjoy reading from it and actually enjoy scripture reading time. As parents, Stacey and I have also decided on a new approach to scripture reading - instead of trying to read what we want to read (in the past we would try to get through one chapter) we read until we realize the kids are no longer paying attention or are getting too restless. The nice thing about this new Book of Mormon is that it breaks the chapters down into three or four sections. We do not get through a chapter in our reading but on occasion we make it through three of the sections. I suspect that we will run into evenings when we might make it through one scripture - but our new philosophy is NOT the QUANTITY of our scripture reading but the QUALITY. Our kids are not going to remember everything we read together as a family, but they will remember that we read our scriptures together every night (would you believe - quite often? Would you believe - more than once a week?). We also spend time explaining situations to the kids and try to ask questions that spark their memory from the previous reading. We have enjoyed spending time together as a family and with our scripture reading. Now, I don't suggest spending large quantities of time away from your family, but it has really helped us understand what is truly important in life. The Book of Mormon for families was the best $35 (through amazon.com and not Deseret Book) we have ever invested...