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I'm gonna RANT!! Here goes!

Matthew is taking Awanas. Used to love it. Now they are making him memorize the books of the Old Testament. He has got some mental block about it and just can't do it. But they won't let him go on until he does it. He learned a bunch of verses but they won't let him go any further till he says these books of the Bible.

What's the point of it, I ask you?

So you can find them? Can't any moron just look in the contents page and find the book their looking for? I learned them when I was a kid and promptly forgot them. I never have any trouble finding a book...they're listed right there in the front!

So you can find them quickly? What's the point of that? If I want to find a verse quickly, I just run a Google search! Can't get faster than that, I tell ya.

The whole thing seems ridiculous. I can understand memorizing verses...verses are good to have tucked away in your heart. But just knowing the books of the Bible in order seems a bit unnecessary to me.

It's got Matthew not wanting to go to Awanas and me so irritated I don't want to take him.

I can remember stuff for a short period of time, but was never good at long lists. And I'm not dumb. And I know darned well Matthew is ANYTHING but dumb!

One suggestion, though, if they're being REALLY insistant...we used to have a tape with a song that had the books of the Bible. "Wee Sing Bible Song", I think. I can still remember some of that even after all these years...so maybe that'd be an option just for now?

But yeah...I just know more or less the order and can flip through and find it. That's all ya need, in my opinion!

Lots of times the ways to test that someone has studied something are arbitrary... I can't remember my capitals of all the states either without the silly song I made up to remember them by.

Make up a song where each line has an answer.... he could remember that better than a list and it might make it more fun! ;~D