Lesson 9

Lesson Title: "Honoring Parents"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 1 at lds.org. With Ensign, New Era, and Friend references

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will try to improve her relationship with her parents.

PREPARATION:

1. Make a copy of the questionnaires in this lesson for each young woman. You may want to give the girls the questionnaires a week in advance so they could bring them to class filled out.
2. Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish.
3. Note to the teacher:
   As you prepare this lesson, adapt the material if any young women in your class do not have a father or mother in their homes.

ATTENTION GETTER:

story at the beginning of the lesson.

LESSON:

HANDOUT:

This handout contains the questionaire in the lesson. There are two pages. One for the Mother and one for the Father.

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MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA:

• Plan an "Honor Parents" night.
• Develop a plan that each girl could carry out in her own home, with her brothers and sisters, to express honor and appreciation to her parents.
• Suggest that each young woman write a letter of appreciation to her parents.
• Each young woman could set personal goals to show honor and respect to her parents.