Family home evening lessons are great tools for teaching important principles of the gospel. As we strive to have family home evening every Monday sometimes things don't go according to plan and most of the time we only get half of our children's attention except....this past Monday night, we focused on teaching the importance of telling the truth and what would happen if my children told a lie. We got started by using some examples, questions, a yarn string for wrapping the liar and role-plays. I volunteered to be the liar and Troy and I role-played the scene. I sat on a chair (the hot seat). Troy asked me to pretty much narrate my day. Troy asked “what did you do today at school?” I stated, I had a good time playing on the computer. He got the yarn out and started wrapping with it while the kids were saying yeah right you don’t like to play computer games--that’s a lie. Then I also said that I had gone to get James from pre-school and found out that he had eaten a grasshopper for lunch and The teachers had told me that he really liked it. James’s face was confused and he said that’s a lie I didn’t have a grasshopper for lunch. He began to cry while Troy continues to put more yarn around me. I think that the kids got the point of the lesson and even James got it. We told the children that it is best not to tell lies because sooner or later we will find out about it. It took James a little longer to grasp on the concept of the lesson and It wasn’t until I started saying things that didn’t happen at school, but I sure got his attention.