Everyday Educator - Active Listening, Kings of Rome - Summer Book Club
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00:00:02.580 | - Welcome friends to this episode
00:00:06.300 | of the "Everyday Educator" podcast.
00:00:09.160 | I'm your host, Lisa Bailey,
00:00:10.980 | and I'm excited to spend some time with you today
00:00:15.000 | as we encourage one another, learn together,
00:00:18.280 | and ponder the delights and challenges
00:00:21.480 | that make homeschooling the adventure of a lifetime.
00:00:24.840 | Whether you're just considering
00:00:27.000 | this homeschooling possibility or deep into
00:00:30.600 | the daily delight of family learning,
00:00:33.400 | I believe you'll enjoy thinking along with us.
00:00:37.880 | But don't forget, although this online community is awesome,
00:00:42.880 | you'll find even closer support in a local CC community.
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00:00:57.440 | Well, listeners, I'm super excited
00:00:59.360 | that we are in the midst of summer
00:01:01.480 | and in the midst of our summer book club,
00:01:04.640 | and I have enjoyed reading stories along with you
00:01:09.160 | from the readers that will go along
00:01:12.040 | with our Cycle One Foundation's memory work in the fall.
00:01:16.840 | It's somehow fun to get a jump on things
00:01:21.320 | that we will be learning together, learning about together,
00:01:26.640 | in the fall, and it's kind of fun to get a preview
00:01:29.920 | of those stories so that some of the characters
00:01:33.000 | and some of the situations will be familiar
00:01:36.320 | when we approach them again together in the fall.
00:01:39.480 | But even more than that, you guys,
00:01:41.680 | I just really love reading aloud as a family,
00:01:45.200 | and I really enjoy encouraging young moms and dads
00:01:49.560 | and older moms and dads and young and old kids alike
00:01:53.360 | to take some time to read aloud together
00:01:56.700 | over the summer months.
00:01:58.260 | Now, I know that some people have a different idea
00:02:04.240 | of reading than I do,
00:02:06.180 | and maybe reading sounds like a passive activity
00:02:11.180 | to some people, and maybe you are not fond
00:02:16.440 | of slow, passive activities,
00:02:18.840 | or maybe your kids are not really fond of that
00:02:22.800 | and they really wanna use the summer to be active
00:02:25.520 | and to run around and to do something and to play things
00:02:28.400 | and to do different things.
00:02:31.320 | I'm here to tell you
00:02:32.960 | that reading does not have to be passive.
00:02:37.000 | I know it conjures up for some the picture
00:02:41.720 | of quietly sitting, turning pages as needed,
00:02:46.520 | but not moving much otherwise.
00:02:49.800 | Even reading aloud where one person is making noise,
00:02:54.800 | reading aloud might sound like a low-movement moment.
00:03:00.480 | For some kids and some families,
00:03:03.280 | that makes reading together less appealing.
00:03:07.720 | While snuggling in with a book and a fire
00:03:10.360 | and some hot cocoa sounds pretty good on a cold winter day,
00:03:15.080 | reading aloud might sound like too much stillness
00:03:19.480 | for summer.
00:03:20.720 | But who says reading aloud means sitting still?
00:03:25.720 | I would like to suggest some active listening ideas
00:03:31.840 | for those of you who struggle to sell read aloud time
00:03:35.920 | to your active kids,
00:03:37.600 | or even to your make-the-most-of-summer selves.
00:03:42.600 | Listen, reading can be done anywhere.
00:03:46.280 | It can be inside, sure,
00:03:48.160 | but it can be outside, on the porch,
00:03:51.380 | on a swing, at the zoo,
00:03:54.960 | with your feet dangling in the creek,
00:03:58.040 | eating ice cream in the park.
00:04:00.120 | Look, my point is take your book with you
00:04:04.480 | wherever you're going,
00:04:06.840 | whatever you're planning to do during the day,
00:04:10.840 | take your book with you.
00:04:12.680 | Finding a different venue for your story
00:04:16.840 | makes reading aloud something new to do.
00:04:19.560 | It gives you all something new to see as you listen,
00:04:24.560 | and who knows, might provoke new thoughts in your listeners.
00:04:29.680 | So take your books on vacation.
00:04:32.920 | Take your books when you run errands.
00:04:36.340 | Take your books when you're gonna meet somebody at the park.
00:04:40.720 | You know that there's always gonna be a moment
00:04:43.040 | when everybody is too hot to breathe,
00:04:46.800 | too tired to play another game,
00:04:49.060 | and everybody just needs a rest.
00:04:51.040 | Whip out your story.
00:04:52.520 | Whip out your book.
00:04:54.100 | Invite your listeners into a story
00:04:58.480 | and take a moment to read.
00:05:01.080 | Another thing,
00:05:02.480 | your kids can, I mean, usually listen to a story
00:05:10.000 | while they do something else.
00:05:12.120 | My kids used to like to listen to stories
00:05:15.920 | that I read to them while they were doing chores.
00:05:19.280 | I don't know if it just made the chore less unappealing,
00:05:24.280 | made the time pass faster,
00:05:27.200 | gave their mind something to chew on
00:05:29.560 | as they did a mindless task,
00:05:32.120 | but I can remember sitting in the hall,
00:05:34.840 | in the hallway between their two rooms
00:05:37.480 | when they were cleaning their room,
00:05:40.040 | and I would read aloud as they cleaned.
00:05:43.280 | And I would read only as long as they were moving.
00:05:48.280 | So if I looked in and they had become lost in thought
00:05:52.440 | or lost in the story, I stopped reading.
00:05:55.160 | So as long as they were moving, I kept reading.
00:05:58.600 | Look, here's the truth.
00:06:00.160 | Some kids listen better
00:06:04.640 | when they have some way to get the wiggles out.
00:06:08.400 | You can let them ride a bike or a tricycle
00:06:11.720 | around in a circle while they're listening.
00:06:16.320 | You can let them or encourage them
00:06:20.160 | to doodle or draw on paper.
00:06:23.640 | Shoot, you can have them hop on one leg
00:06:26.120 | and then on the other leg
00:06:27.520 | while they're listening to a short fable.
00:06:30.440 | You can have your kids dig in the sandbox
00:06:33.440 | or dig in a flower pot or dig in the yard.
00:06:36.920 | Depending on what you're reading,
00:06:39.880 | I mean, it might be a fairy tale or a fable.
00:06:43.600 | It might be a nature journal.
00:06:45.640 | It might be a cookbook.
00:06:47.120 | Depending on what you're reading,
00:06:48.920 | you can actually make what they're doing
00:06:52.440 | part of what they're hearing.
00:06:55.520 | I mean, they could design a fairy creature house
00:06:59.520 | on paper or with chalk.
00:07:02.200 | They could watch ants build a mound.
00:07:07.200 | They could stir up the cupcakes that you are describing.
00:07:12.640 | You'll be able to tell if they're still listening
00:07:18.020 | as you learn to ask questions along the way
00:07:21.160 | and as you enjoy some conversation
00:07:24.600 | after the reading is done.
00:07:27.920 | This summer, we've been working together
00:07:30.080 | on ways to prime that conversational pump
00:07:34.240 | and continue the pleasure of the stories
00:07:38.400 | that we're reading together.
00:07:40.160 | So today, let's listen to a few more stories
00:07:44.560 | from our Copper Lodge Library Edition, Kings of Rome.
00:07:49.560 | And then I'm gonna give you a few more suggestions
00:07:54.600 | for great conversations.
00:07:57.600 | So the stories that I want to read you today,
00:08:00.160 | they're three stories and they're short.
00:08:03.000 | And this is what I want you to realize.
00:08:05.160 | Some of these stories are super short.
00:08:08.320 | They might only be a page or two in the Kings of Rome book
00:08:13.320 | and you can read them one at a time
00:08:16.080 | or you can bundle two or three together as we'll do today.
00:08:20.760 | We have already read a couple, maybe three weeks ago,
00:08:26.880 | we read a couple of stories
00:08:29.800 | from the beginning of Kings of Rome.
00:08:33.360 | And we had already met the characters, Romulus and Remus.
00:08:38.360 | And we had discovered that they had been sort of banished
00:08:43.200 | and they are actually, though they are princes,
00:08:46.000 | have been serving as shepherds.
00:08:49.880 | Yep, shepherds.
00:08:50.960 | And their grandfather, who had been the king,
00:08:56.960 | has been kind of exiled himself.
00:09:00.880 | And so we're picking up the threads of the story today.
00:09:05.640 | Numitor recognizes his grandsons.
00:09:10.640 | Okay, here we go.
00:09:13.800 | The young prisoner was brought before Numitor
00:09:19.120 | in the city of Alba.
00:09:21.240 | No sooner had the old man's eyes fallen on the lad
00:09:25.840 | than he threw up his hands in a maze
00:09:29.040 | and gazed more keenly at the prisoner.
00:09:33.560 | "No herdsman this," muttered the old king to himself,
00:09:38.560 | "rather does he bear himself as a prince."
00:09:44.160 | Scanning the face before him even more closely,
00:09:48.000 | it seemed to Numitor that the features
00:09:50.840 | were not unknown to him.
00:09:54.040 | Dreams of his lost daughter, Sylvia, gladdened his heart.
00:09:59.040 | Gently, the old man tried to win the confidence of the lad,
00:10:04.480 | asking him who he was and whence he came.
00:10:09.480 | Remus was touched by the kindness of Numitor and answered,
00:10:15.280 | "I will hide nothing from you, sire,
00:10:18.240 | for you seem of a princely temper
00:10:21.560 | in that you give a hearing and examine before you punish."
00:10:26.520 | Then he told the story that Faustulus
00:10:30.880 | had often told to him and Romulus
00:10:33.720 | of how the wolf had found them as babes
00:10:37.040 | on the banks of the river Tiber
00:10:39.440 | and had carried them to her cave
00:10:42.040 | and fed them with her milk.
00:10:44.800 | Long before Remus had ended his story,
00:10:48.160 | Numitor knew that it was his grandson, his daughter,
00:10:52.360 | Sylvia's child, who stood before him
00:10:54.600 | and his old heart beat quick with joy.
00:10:58.360 | Here at length was one who would take his side
00:11:02.500 | against the cruel King Aemulius.
00:11:06.120 | At this moment, Romulus, leading a rough band of herdsmen,
00:11:11.560 | approached the city gate, determined to rescue his brother
00:11:16.360 | from the hands of Numitor.
00:11:18.560 | In the city were many folk who groaned
00:11:21.800 | under the tyranny of Aemulius.
00:11:25.240 | These, hearing that Romulus was without the city gate,
00:11:30.240 | stole noiselessly away to join the prince,
00:11:34.360 | believing he had come to punish the king.
00:11:38.960 | Meanwhile, Romulus had divided his followers
00:11:43.120 | into companies of a hundred men.
00:11:45.520 | At the head of each company was a captain
00:11:48.180 | carrying a small bundle of grass and shrubs tied to a pole.
00:11:53.180 | These rough standards were called manipuli,
00:11:58.420 | and it was because they carried these manipuli
00:12:01.540 | that captains in the Roman army came to be called
00:12:05.580 | manipulares.
00:12:06.420 | When Aemulius heard that Numitor had recognized
00:12:12.720 | in the prisoner one of his long-lost grandsons,
00:12:16.560 | he was afraid.
00:12:18.120 | Then, hearing the shouts and blows of Romulus and his men
00:12:22.860 | as they attacked the city gate, he rushed to defend it,
00:12:26.520 | determined that the second prince should not enter the city.
00:12:31.520 | But Romulus gained, captured the gate,
00:12:35.920 | slew the king, and entered the city in triumph.
00:12:41.360 | Here he found Remus no longer a prisoner as he had feared,
00:12:46.360 | but the acknowledged grandson of Numitor.
00:12:50.680 | The old king welcomed Romulus as joyfully
00:12:54.440 | as he had welcomed his brother,
00:12:56.440 | and the two princes, eager to please the gentle old man,
00:13:01.080 | placed him upon the throne
00:13:03.040 | from which he had so long ago been driven.
00:13:07.080 | They then sped to the prison
00:13:09.000 | where their mother Sylvia had lain
00:13:11.120 | since the princes had been born.
00:13:13.880 | Swiftly, they set her free
00:13:15.960 | and cheered her by their love and care
00:13:18.480 | as good sons ever will.
00:13:21.140 | Did you enjoy that story?
00:13:25.080 | Were there words in the story that weren't familiar to you
00:13:29.520 | or words that you had heard before
00:13:31.560 | but used in a different way,
00:13:34.520 | such as the old man's eyes had fallen on the lad,
00:13:39.320 | then he threw up his hands in amaze?
00:13:42.800 | We might say in amazement, okay?
00:13:45.920 | So go through the story again
00:13:48.040 | and see if there are words that are used differently
00:13:52.320 | from the ways that you're used to using them
00:13:54.920 | or words that you might need a little bit of explanation for
00:13:58.840 | in order to really understand the story.
00:14:02.160 | But let's go on.
00:14:03.040 | I want to read to you the next story in "Kings of Rome."
00:14:07.080 | It's called "The Sacred Birds."
00:14:10.280 | The grandsons of Numitor could no longer live as shepherds
00:14:17.320 | on Mount Palatine, which they had learned to love,
00:14:20.880 | nor could they dwell quietly in Alba for all their lives.
00:14:26.160 | They'd been used to live free among the mountains,
00:14:30.000 | nor had they been subject to any king.
00:14:33.780 | So the princes made up their minds to leave Alba
00:14:38.240 | and to build a city for themselves on the hills they loved.
00:14:43.240 | But the brothers could not agree
00:14:46.120 | on which hill to build their city.
00:14:50.600 | Romulus choosing the Palatine, Remus the Aventine.
00:14:55.600 | Not knowing how to settle their dispute,
00:14:59.120 | they asked Numitor to help them.
00:15:01.520 | He bade them, as the custom was, to appeal to augury,
00:15:06.520 | that is, to watch for a sign or omen from the gods.
00:15:11.760 | These signs were given in many different forms,
00:15:14.400 | sometimes by the flight of birds, as happened now.
00:15:19.400 | The princes determined to follow their grandfather's advice.
00:15:23.920 | Romulus went to Mount Palatine, Remus to Mount Aventine,
00:15:29.520 | and patient through one long day, they watched for a sign.
00:15:34.520 | But no sign appeared.
00:15:37.520 | The slow hours passed and night drew on apace,
00:15:41.720 | yet still the brothers never stirred.
00:15:44.720 | Then, as darkness faded before the dawn,
00:15:48.040 | Remus saw far off, dark, moving shapes.
00:15:53.040 | Were the gods going to be gracious, the prince wondered,
00:15:55.840 | and after so many hours send a sign?
00:15:59.720 | Nearer and nearer drew the dark shapes.
00:16:02.480 | "Ah," cried Remus sharply, "it is a good omen."
00:16:06.960 | For now he could see that the moving forms
00:16:10.160 | were six vultures winging their way toward the west.
00:16:15.160 | These birds were sacred to the gods
00:16:17.520 | and did no harm to corn, fruit, or cattle,
00:16:20.880 | nor would they indeed wound any living thing.
00:16:25.880 | Swiftly Remus bade a messenger to go tell his brother
00:16:30.240 | of the good omen vouchsafed to him.
00:16:34.120 | But even as his messenger sped to do his will,
00:16:38.460 | Remus was crestfallen, for before him stood
00:16:42.100 | one of the servants of Romulus to tell him
00:16:45.240 | that his brother too had seen a flight of vultures.
00:16:50.080 | But while Remus had seen six birds, Romulus had seen 12.
00:16:55.080 | What was to be done?
00:16:58.400 | It seems now that the brothers were not thinking
00:17:01.040 | on which hill the city should stand,
00:17:04.120 | but of which of them should build the city.
00:17:07.920 | Remus believed that the augury proclaimed him
00:17:11.560 | as the founder of the new city.
00:17:13.920 | Romulus was sure that it was he
00:17:16.680 | who was intended by the gods to build it,
00:17:19.400 | for had he not seen 12 vultures
00:17:22.920 | while his brother had seen but six?
00:17:26.360 | The princes turned to their followers demanding
00:17:29.600 | who should be their king.
00:17:31.980 | Then loud and lusty was the answering shout,
00:17:35.840 | "Romulus, Romulus, he shall be our king!"
00:17:40.440 | And the next story is called The Founding of Rome.
00:17:47.200 | It was in the year 753 BC that Romulus was chosen king.
00:17:52.200 | He at once began to make preparations
00:17:57.560 | to build the city on the Palatine Hill,
00:18:01.480 | the foundation he wished to lay on the 21st
00:18:05.020 | of the glad month of April, for, as Romulus knew,
00:18:09.520 | this was a feast day among the shepherds.
00:18:13.000 | Often he, with his brother, had joined the herdsmen
00:18:16.680 | on that day to offer cakes to the goddess Peles,
00:18:20.600 | to beseech her blessing on themselves and on their flocks.
00:18:24.360 | And when the prayers and sacrifices were over,
00:18:27.140 | how gladly he had joined in the shepherds' games and jollity,
00:18:31.920 | no better day could be found on which
00:18:34.120 | to lay the foundation of the new city.
00:18:38.000 | When the feast day arrived, a hole was first dug
00:18:41.960 | on the spot where the city was to stand,
00:18:45.520 | and to this hole the king flung the first fruits
00:18:49.360 | of the earth, corn and fruit.
00:18:52.880 | Each of his followers then took a handful of earth,
00:18:56.100 | which he had carried with him from his own,
00:18:58.820 | perhaps distant home, and flung it also into the hole,
00:19:03.360 | which was then filled to the top.
00:19:06.600 | Here, too, an altar was built on which the people
00:19:09.480 | laid offerings to the gods, from henceforth the spot
00:19:13.720 | where the temple had been erected
00:19:15.920 | was to be the hearth or center of the new city.
00:19:20.080 | Romulus, then throwing his toga, or we would say his mantle,
00:19:24.760 | around him with one end covering his head,
00:19:27.840 | took a white bull and a cow and yoked them to a sacred plow,
00:19:32.840 | the share, or cutting blade, which was made of brass.
00:19:38.220 | With this plow share, the king then made a furrow
00:19:42.000 | to mark the boundary of the city,
00:19:44.840 | bidding his followers watch that the upturned earth
00:19:48.520 | fell inward to the hearth of the city.
00:19:51.600 | Not a clod must be allowed to lie without the furrow.
00:19:56.600 | When the plow reached the different spots
00:19:59.480 | at which the gates of the city were to stand,
00:20:02.320 | it was carefully lifted over the spaces.
00:20:06.640 | As he guided the plow, Romulus cried to his gods
00:20:09.920 | that his city might become strong and endure
00:20:13.440 | and ever grow more powerful in the great world.
00:20:17.760 | Out of a clear sky, thunder crashed,
00:20:21.640 | lightning flashed over the hills
00:20:24.400 | as Romulus uttered his petitions,
00:20:27.200 | and the people believed that the storm
00:20:29.600 | was the answer of the god Jupiter
00:20:31.840 | to the prayers of their king.
00:20:34.260 | When these sacred rites were ended,
00:20:36.720 | Romulus bade his men begin at once
00:20:39.560 | to build the wall, which was to surround his city.
00:20:44.560 | The wall itself was sacred.
00:20:48.040 | None might enter the city save by the gates,
00:20:52.400 | so the king bade one of his followers, named Celer,
00:20:56.520 | to guard the sacred furrow and to see that no one dared
00:21:00.760 | to scale the wall or jump across it as it was being built.
00:21:06.800 | Remus, who was still angry that he had not been chosen king,
00:21:11.800 | had been standing near to Romulus
00:21:14.800 | as he laid the foundation of the city.
00:21:18.040 | Then, as the wall began to rise before him,
00:21:22.120 | a swift rage sprang up in his heart,
00:21:25.760 | and he leaped across it, saying,
00:21:28.080 | "Shall such defenses as these guard your city?"
00:21:34.140 | Celer, the watchman, seeing that Remus
00:21:37.140 | had scorned the order of the king,
00:21:40.940 | raised his spade in sudden fury
00:21:43.220 | and struck the young prince dead to the ground.
00:21:46.860 | Then, fearing lest Romulus should punish him
00:21:51.460 | for his hasty deed, he fled.
00:21:54.640 | Fear lent him wings, and his name from that day
00:21:59.020 | became a byword to betoken great speed,
00:22:03.540 | our own word, celerity, comes from Celer,
00:22:08.060 | the swift-footed servant of Romulus.
00:22:12.460 | When Romulus was told that his brother had been slain,
00:22:16.980 | he showed neither grief nor anger.
00:22:20.360 | "Thus perish everyone who may attempt to cross these walls,"
00:22:26.220 | were his stern words to those who brought the sad tidings.
00:22:32.900 | Celer, it was plain, had fled in needless haste.
00:22:37.900 | Okay, you guys, let's think about some questions
00:22:46.460 | that we might ask to get conversation going
00:22:50.900 | from these three stories.
00:22:53.020 | Go back to the first story,
00:22:55.500 | Numitor recognizes his grandsons.
00:22:58.360 | And it says in there that Numitor looked at this prisoner
00:23:03.360 | who everybody thought was a shepherd
00:23:07.800 | and saw something different in him.
00:23:11.520 | How does someone bear himself as a prince?
00:23:16.520 | You might have to talk with your children
00:23:20.240 | about what that means.
00:23:21.840 | What is your bearing?
00:23:23.560 | It's the way you stand, the way you present yourself,
00:23:27.340 | the way you hold yourself, hold your head,
00:23:30.700 | the pride that you show in yourself.
00:23:34.520 | How does someone bear himself as a prince?
00:23:38.680 | Have your kids demonstrate for you, all right?
00:23:42.900 | So in this same story,
00:23:48.880 | when Remus was the prisoner
00:23:54.220 | who had been brought before Numitor,
00:23:55.920 | Romulus, his twin brother, was outside
00:23:58.720 | and he was eager to save his brother.
00:24:01.960 | And so he fashioned a weapon.
00:24:04.220 | So he's outside and he's gonna storm the city gates
00:24:07.120 | and he's gonna come in and save his brother.
00:24:09.500 | So he fashioned a weapon.
00:24:10.760 | Do you remember what the weapon was and what it looked like?
00:24:13.960 | What in the world?
00:24:14.800 | It sounded like a weird kind of weapon to me.
00:24:18.280 | What good would that weapon do?
00:24:23.440 | And would you make a weapon like that?
00:24:26.620 | Ask your kids.
00:24:27.840 | If you were gonna rescue your brother or your sister
00:24:32.200 | or your mom and dad from an enemy,
00:24:35.720 | what kind of weapon would you use?
00:24:38.320 | If you had to make the weapon for what you have around you,
00:24:43.320 | maybe in your yard or in your garage
00:24:46.640 | or even in your bedroom,
00:24:48.720 | what kind of weapon would you use, okay?
00:24:52.920 | So in this story, Numitor recognizes his grandsons.
00:24:57.900 | It talks about gentleness winning the day.
00:25:02.900 | What does that mean?
00:25:04.180 | And how did gentleness win the day?
00:25:07.520 | Can you think of a time when kindness
00:25:13.560 | made a tough situation easier?
00:25:18.200 | Now remember, once Romulus and Remus had been discovered
00:25:22.120 | to be the grandsons of the old king,
00:25:26.620 | they couldn't live as shepherds anymore.
00:25:29.080 | That would just be weird.
00:25:31.160 | But they really didn't wanna live in the city
00:25:34.120 | like princes might do because they were used to being free
00:25:37.480 | and living out in the wild.
00:25:39.560 | How might living in a city
00:25:44.480 | and living in a country be different, okay?
00:25:49.480 | Which do you know the best?
00:25:51.320 | Are you used to living in the country
00:25:53.800 | or are you used to living in the city?
00:25:57.760 | And would you like to try the other?
00:26:01.720 | You might have your kids make a diorama
00:26:06.260 | of what life in the country is like
00:26:08.400 | and one, what life in the city is like,
00:26:11.040 | or they could make a poster and they could act it out.
00:26:15.340 | You guys could have a great conversation
00:26:18.120 | about what it means to live in the country.
00:26:20.500 | And there are lots of other city-country comparison stories
00:26:25.500 | for you to explore.
00:26:30.020 | That's a great conversation starter.
00:26:33.760 | And maybe mom, dad, if you lived in the city
00:26:37.740 | when you were a child but live in the country now
00:26:41.440 | or vice versa, you could share from your own experiences
00:26:45.800 | what that would be like.
00:26:49.160 | Now, you know that things did not stay happy
00:26:52.420 | with Romulus and Remus.
00:26:53.860 | And when it came to the founding of Rome,
00:26:57.060 | only one of them could be king.
00:26:59.340 | And so Romulus and Remus,
00:27:02.080 | they didn't get along as well as grownups.
00:27:06.220 | What do you do when you have a dispute with somebody,
00:27:11.220 | when you're fussing or fighting or disagreeing with someone?
00:27:17.300 | Kids, who helps you handle your disagreements with others?
00:27:22.300 | How do you learn to handle your own disagreements?
00:27:28.860 | Mom, dad, this is a great teachable moment
00:27:33.500 | to talk about learning to handle our own disputes.
00:27:38.500 | All right?
00:27:39.540 | In this story also, in these stories,
00:27:43.820 | we also hear about augury, augury, an appeal to augury.
00:27:48.820 | And Numitor tells Romulus and Remus,
00:27:54.260 | well, he doesn't know where they should build
00:27:57.140 | their new city.
00:27:58.140 | And so an appeal to augury, a sign or omen from the gods.
00:28:03.140 | Now, we do not appeal to the gods
00:28:08.540 | when we want advice or guidance with a problem or a concern.
00:28:13.660 | We appeal to our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:28:17.620 | We appeal to God, our Father.
00:28:20.460 | How do we ask God to guide us?
00:28:24.740 | How do we ask God to guide us?
00:28:26.860 | We don't ask for an omen,
00:28:29.700 | but there were times in the Bible
00:28:31.500 | when God's people asked him for a sign
00:28:35.740 | of what they should do.
00:28:37.700 | How do we ask God to guide us?
00:28:40.900 | Talk about with your family,
00:28:42.860 | how God has guided you or your family in the past.
00:28:47.860 | Kids, ask your parents to tell you about a time
00:28:54.380 | that God guided them when they had a decision to make.
00:28:59.500 | Also in these stories,
00:29:04.540 | we see what happens when jealousy comes into play.
00:29:09.900 | When jealousy rears its head.
00:29:12.580 | How did jealousy divide Romulus and Remus in the story?
00:29:17.580 | How does jealousy divide friends and family today?
00:29:25.780 | How maybe has jealousy ever divided you from a friend
00:29:30.700 | or from a brother or sister?
00:29:33.180 | What causes jealousy?
00:29:37.100 | What does the Bible teach us about jealousy?
00:29:41.620 | What should we do to root out jealousy
00:29:47.900 | before it becomes a bitter root in our heart
00:29:54.900 | causing lots of problems?
00:29:56.980 | These are some great questions
00:29:58.780 | that you can ask your children
00:30:01.220 | that you guys can use together
00:30:03.960 | to explore the stories that we read more fully,
00:30:08.740 | more deeply and to draw your hearts closer together.
00:30:12.640 | Reading together is a way for a family to build community
00:30:17.640 | and to learn one another's hearts.
00:30:20.340 | And I hope that you guys will enjoy
00:30:22.260 | doing that very thing this summer.
00:30:25.160 | See you next time.
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