My wife has been doing an excellent job of training our older two to take sermon notes.  I'm not much of a note-taker, I never really developed the skill.  In school I always borrowed some cute girls notes, copied them and then asked her out.  Eventually I just married a cute girl who also takes good notes so I'm basically set for life.  Besides what did I need sermon notes for, the Preacher sat across from me at lunch every Sunday.  I always got a Postgame wrap up.

Our 7-yr old's reading and writing is a work in progress so we encouraged her to try to draw something to represent what she heard.  It could be a word, phrase or anything that grabbed her attention.  The idea being to get her to listen.

Last night I shared our Daughter's notes from the sermon on Sunday (References our mine):

• Wised (wisdom) is like ABC gum (Ecclesiastes 2:12)
  

• End up in coffin (Ecclesiastes 2:14)

Her brother, on the other hand, has devloped a template for our current series on Idols.  He simply fills in the blanks.  His mother thinks it's lazy, he thinks it's efficiant.  Here's his template:

• It's not <blank> that's the problem, it's what you do with <blank> and make <blank> more important than God.

Make's a Father proud.

Thanks Andrew, John and Brian for a good series and keeping my kids engaged.