13) What’s the Best Way to Teach Kids About the World?

Teaching kids these days has gotten a lot more complicated, right? People say kids’ attention span is shorter these days; has anybody noticed how fascinated they can be with an iPad? … like… until the battery runs down? So our question is this: How do we teach them about the world? What’s the best way to help them love nations — and people. In the old days, we’d get them a coloring book, right? Something like…

http://www.amazon.com/Geography-Coloring-Book-3rd-Edition/dp/0131014722/ref=zg_bs_13602_3

And maybe that still works? But … what are the apps that help them fall in love with nations? Where are the resources? Do we just have to TAKE them there? How do YOU solve this question? And how do you help them love to PRAY for the nations? See the article at…

http://247moms.com/2013/05/8-ways-to-teach-your-kids-to-pray-for-the-nations/

That’s what we’re trying to discern. Check out…

http://www.globalprn.com/prayer-resources/children-teens-and-prayer/

And see the Operation World page on this question at…

http://www.operationworld.org/prayer-and-nations

See the Boys and Girls Missionary Challenge at…

http://www.bgmckids.ag.org/pray/

Pick up these Kids’ Prayer cards…

http://www.amazon.com/THUMB-Kids-Prayer-Cards-Weave/dp/0982510764

and this “THUMB Coloring Book”

http://cmmpress.org/thumb-coloring-book-download.html

And this classic, “Window on the World” book…

http://cmmpress.org/thumb-coloring-book-download.html

What’s YOUR best resource?