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Family Home Evening: A House of Order

This month’s family home evening lesson is focused on creating a positive home environment. This lesson can branch out in many different areas, and you should be able to adjust it to meet your own family’s needs. You can talk about keeping the home clean and participating in chores as well as having a positive attitude towards people in the family. Open the lesson with a song and a prayer. You can begin by sharing Doctrine and Covenants 88:119. Then ask your family what things this scripture says that we need to do to bring the spirit into your home. … Continue reading →

Five Resolutions to Bring the Spirit into Your Home

I love it when home feels like a refuge from the rest of the world. It is important to create a space that allows your family to feel comfortable, loved and accepted no matter what. One of the best ways to do this is to have the spirit in the home at all times. It can be difficult to do this on a daily basis. Here are five resolutions to help your family bring the spirit into his home. First strive to have family prayer and scriptures study every day. This is one of the best ways that you can … Continue reading →

Creating a Healthy Lifestyle for Your Family

Spring has officially come, and it is a great time to help your family focus on caring for themselves in a healthy way. The Word of Wisdom teaches us to care for our bodies. We need to be careful about what we eat and choose to put into our bodies. We also need to care for our bodies through exercise and proper rest. As we do this our family life will be smoother and everyone will be happier. Here are some ideas to help you get your family choosing a healthier lifestyle. 1) Plan a family home evening lesson that … Continue reading →

Your Home Environment

One of the things that we were admonished to do in our last conference was create an environment that was the conducive to the spirit. It is important that our children can feel the spirit in our homes. It is important that we take the time to make our homes a place where love can be felt. Our children need to feel love and acceptance. One of the most important things that we can do to make our homes a place that is spiritual is in the way that we treat each other. When you treat your children with respect … Continue reading →

The Spiritual Moments

It is important to take time to create spiritual moments for your children. These moments can help them to gain testimonies, and to lay up in store times and memories of love of comfort. When I say create I do not mean to contrive to make the moments happen, rather you need to allow the opportunities to come. You need to provide an environment that allows this to happen. Here are four suggestions on preparing your family and home for spiritual moments. 1) It is easier to feel the spirit in quiet moments. Make sure that your family has some … Continue reading →

Creating the Quiet Teaching Moments in Your Home

Some of the most important teaching moments come in the day-to day moments that you spend with your children. They can come when one of your children comes and asks you an important question or they may come as your children observe the way you handle a particular problem or situation. It is important that allow these opportunities to happen. The first thing you need to do to allow these moments to happen is to be available to your children. This means taking time to listening to what they are saying on a daily basis. It also means letting your … Continue reading →

Creating a Learning Atmosphere

When it comes to the spiritual atmosphere in our home, we can create one that is either conducive to learning, or not. Some of the responsibility for such an atmosphere lies on us as parents; some of it lies on our children. As parents, we have a more direct role than an ordinary teacher in controlling what habits our children learn. When we work to create a learning atmosphere, and take the time to raise our kids in it, then they will also take the steps necessary to maintain that atmosphere. How We Can Contribute to a Learning Atmosphere In … Continue reading →

Creating A Learning-Centered Home

The primary responsibility for teaching our children lays not on the church and not on the schools but in our own homes. It is our role as parents to teach our children about the gospel and about our Savior. As I studied the section in the Teacher Development manual on creating a learning atmosphere, I saw a multitude of ways that we could apply these precepts not only in our wards and branches but in our homes. Because there were so many fantastic points, I’m going to break this down into a series over the remainder of the week. Today, … Continue reading →

Creating a Spiritual Home Environment

It is important to have a home that is conducive to feeling the spirit. A home, which is this way, will be more inviting to those that visit. It will help your family to get along. It will give you opportunities to teach your children about the gospel on a daily basis. Here are a few suggestions to help you have a positive home environment. 1) Keep your house clean and orderly. This can be difficult, especially if you have young children or a large family. You can have your children help pick up their toys, and put their things … Continue reading →

Where’s Your Family’s Focus?

The family is the central unit to the church. When you realize that, you should also realize that the family should have the focus of teaching your children about the gospel. The church has instructed us to have family home evening, family prayer and family scripture study to do these things. There are are all things that we can do to teach our children the gospel. There have been times when my family is really focused on the gospel and times when they are not so much. When we make the gospel and Christ the focus of the family everything … Continue reading →