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Change Up Your Family Home Evenings

If family home evening time is becoming more difficult or a bit monotonous, it may be time to try a new routine to make the lessons more effective. Everyone loves change and changing up your family home evening lessons may make the night more effective for everyone in your family. One easy way to start is to find a new source for lesson material. If you have been using the same manual find a new one. If you have been using the church magazines, try using a manual. You can even come up with lesson ideas and stories on your … Continue reading →

Lead Your Family

As parents it is important that you lead your family. There are several different areas in which you should lead your family by example. As your children see your example, they will learn how to form good habits, and they will see how the gospel has blessed your life. If you are frustrated with a certain aspect of your family life, then you need to see what you can do to change the situation. You may be surprised to realize that the change needs to begin within yourself. 1) One important area in which you should lead your family is … Continue reading →

Family Goals for the New Year

As the New Year approaches, it is a great time to sit down and make some goals as a family. You may want to change the overall tone in your home, or you may want to encourage your children to take on more responsibility in the home. You may want to focus on increasing the bond in your family or helping your family to feel the spirit more often. As a couple you should discuss some goals that you have in mind for your family and then you can discuss them with your children. If you have your children take … Continue reading →

Relief Society: The Importance of Family

The Relief Society broadcast on Saturday was a simply wonderful meeting. One of the key points that I got out of the entire meeting was the importance of family. It was refreshing to hear so much emphasis put on the family again. The responsibility that we have towards our children is enormous. If we do not take the time to teach them the gospel, then no one else will. Sadly, the world is becoming more and more focused on things that detract from happiness and the family. As women it is easy to feel as though you are not accomplishing … Continue reading →

Family Councils Can Bring Your Family Closer Together

Once you have children in school, the beginning of the school year is a great time to implement new schedules, rules and chores. It is also a time when you may begin to feel that your family members are running in different directions. Before things get too hectic, you may want to sit down and bring things under control with a family council meeting. If you have teenagers, you may need a meeting every month. Here are five ways to bring your family closer together through a family council. 1) One way to build back up your unity is to … Continue reading →

Organize Your Family

In “To the Aaronic Priesthood: Preparing for the Decade of Decision” Elder Robert D Hales mentions the need to organize yourself so that you can be in tune with the Holy Ghost. I think that this counsel can apply to each of us as individuals, as well as to our families as a whole. Organization leads to order and to peace. When I think of organization when it comes to family, the first thing that pops into my head is a scene from the original “Yours, Mine and Ours.” Frank, the dad, has set up a system as they move … Continue reading →

Pray and Plan to Help Your Family

The family is a very important part of our church. Each family is essential in the plan of salvation. “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” states: “Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. ‘Children are an heritage of the Lord’ (Psalms 127:3). Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and … Continue reading →

Five Topics to Cover in Your Family Council

The new year is a great time to reassess the way that your family is functioning. It is also a great time to reassign chores, and make sure that daily life is going the way that your family wants it to. A great way to do this is hold a family council. The first family council of the year may be longer than normal as you change and plan for the new year. After that you can hold shorter ones a regular basis to make sure that the plans are being met. Here are five things you may want to … Continue reading →

Primary Time: The Importance of Chores

It is important that we teach our children to work. This may seem to be an obvious statement to many, but more and more children are not learning to apply themselves to jobs, and to work through the difficult problems. Working together as a family has a lot of positive benefits for the family and individual. It is extra time together, as well as a chance to talk together. Working hard is also a beneficial skill to have later in life. It can be difficult to realize when your children are old enough to begin working on certain chores, or … Continue reading →

Celebrities Getting the Royal Treatment—Simon Cowell and Britney Spears

SIMON COWELL Most ousted “American Idol” contestants would be thrilled to see music mogul Simon Cowell get the royal boot from his high horse, but it doesn’t appear as though that will be happening anytime soon. In fact, the cocky Brit is actually getting the royal treatment in his homeland. According to British newspapers, Cowell has just been awarded a privilege typically reserved for members of the royal family and eminent politicians – he can now park his car wherever he wants to. The paper is reporting that the “Britain’s Got Talent” judge made a fuss about parking restrictions in … Continue reading →