12 Leadership Ideas To Do With Your KidsSample

Choose a Crisis

Sit down and watch the news on television together with a notepad in hand. Before the telecast, ask your young person to choose one crisis or problem reported in the news. If you prefer, read through the newspaper together (there will be several stories in every newspaper or broadcast!). Once they choose the crisis, have them write down all the details you both can remember from the report.

Then, pose this question to them: If you were in charge of this problem, what would you do to solve it? Ask them to assume leadership in their imagination and jot down what steps they would take to remedy the crisis from start to finish.

Evaluate their steps when they are finished. Did they leave anything out? Is their solution realistic? How expensive would it be? Did they diagnose the problem accurately? Look at how Jesus experienced this process in Matthew 9:35-10:8. His first step was embracing a burden for a problem. His next step was gaining vision for a solution. And finally, He worked toward the fulfillment of that vision.

Are there any steps your young person could actually take to implement their solution?