Helping Our Boys Learn to Love Each Other More Through the My Brother’s Keeper Siblings Bible Study
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Growing up as an only child, I never had to to truly learn to get along with and love my siblings. I knew from a very young age that I wanted to have a large family. Along with a large family come different challenges than I grew up learning. I not only just wanted a large family. I desired a family that loved each other and enjoyed spending time together. Most days, our boys absolutely love to play together and get along great. Every so often, we have a period of time where they fuss and argue a lot. Recently, someone in one of the Facebook groups I follow suggested this bible study. I immediately knew I needed to look into it! After looking at the sample pages on the website, I saw that it was exactly what I had been looking for.
Not Consumed graciously sent us over a digital version for our family to experience together. My Brother’s Keeper is available in a primary (ages 4-7), junior (ages 8-12), and youth (ages 12+), We were sent the primary and junior levels which is exactly the levels my family needed. There is a parents guide coming soon. Along with our studies, we received an abridged parent guide, but I will admit that having a more detailed parents guide would have been wonderful!
Each day includes a main topic idea such as why did God give me siblings, cost of jealousy, my job is to love, and unkind speech. There are 20 lessons to complete together. Each day includes a prayer guide that correlates to the day’s lesson.
While all the levels discuss the same ideas each day, the older levels go into a bit more detail than the younger levels. The primary level has some tracing and coloring spaces. The junior level has some question and answer sections as well as coloring portions.
These lessons are just short enough to keep my boys attention without being too long and boring. We have only completed Day 11 since we are trying to work slowly and absorb as much as we can. I am going to be honest and say I haven’t seen a huge, dramatic change in the boys… yet. I didn’t expect it to be an overnight change anyway, but it gives us reference points to look back on and discuss. I hope that comes over time and maybe I am just planting seeds that can grow.
I want to share a story with you all that I don’t believe happened on accident. I absolutely think it was God thing. One morning our boys were not being kind to each other at all. They were playing tag and only two of them kept getting tagged. One of our littler boys wanted to be it, but the big boys weren’t thinking of him and giving him a chance. We stopped the game and explained that Aaron wanted a turn being it and the kind thing to do would be to give up their turn so he could have a chance. Well, one of the older boys wouldn’t give him a turn. The other older boy said Aaron could have his turn, but that he was done playing. So then the game just ended on its own with a boy quitting. Then Aaron was even more upset since he finally got a chance at being it, but now the game was over. When our kids start acting like this, we enact a special type of discipline. We have the offending child put everyone in the house before them for an entire week. It seems to correct some of the self serving attitudes. When we sat down to start My Brother’s Keeper for the day, our topic was “A Selfish Plan”. The whole entire lesson was about love not being selfish and putting the needs of others first. We could NOT have picked a better topic for this day! This image below is an example of just one of the days on the brief parent guide.
Not consumed has six different bible studies available: Do Right, Developing a Quiet Time, A Content Heart, Fruit of the Tongue, My Brother’s Keeper, and Obey. I want to do all of them! There is also a Sibling Challenge Journal that I would like to get once we are finished with our study.
If you have been looking for a study to help your children grow closer to each other, then this would be a great study for your family! For more information head over to the Not Consumed Website to learn more.
