Introducing Children to FamilySearch

This photo "talks" to me about how parents can begin early in a child's life to "teach" a concept like family.  Mother holds the baby, lovingly, and invites a young child to participate.  

Words like "soft" are said quietly.  "Gentle" is a concept that is first mimicked by the mother and then, the older child is invited to do likewise.

While the picture is of children who are probably too young to use a computer, learning the idea that families contain individuals that are are of varying size, age, personalities, etc., doesn't even require using a lot of wordy language.  Sharing photos, organizing family gatherings, the writing and sending of letters or communications to family members or even just celebrating a birthday---all are steps in the child learning that there such a thing as a family unit containing father, mother, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins!

The first introduction that any child has to any segment of the lives that we can lead is the example of the parent(s).  Seeing your busy mother dedicate a part of her day or week to record her family tree on the computer at FamilySearch.org, may seem like a small thing, but that action becomes to the child an essential lesson: Family history is important.  Perhaps unspoken, but evident is the part that they can someday participate in preserving family stories, and other related activities.

Where would you begin to introduce your children to research, recording, and/or the organization and preservation of records?  How young is too young?   You may be surprised that you are halfway there!