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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 →

Make Family Home Evening Happen

Family home evening is a time to gather your children and to teach them the gospel each week. It is also a time to create a strong family bond and lasting memories. It should be a positive experience each week, and it is important that we put every effort into having family home evening on a regular basis. It is easy to allow other things to interfere with our family home evening lessons. It is important to make family home evening the priority. This means scheduling one night a week when that happens. The church recommends Monday nights, but sometimes … Continue reading →

February 2008 Sharing Time Theme

This month the Sharing Time theme is “The scriptures teach me about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and how to return to Them.” The scripture is 2 Nephi 4:15: “For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children.” The song for the month is “Tell Me the Stories of Jesus.” The theme is broken into weekly principles. The first principle is that the Bible and the Book of Mormon testify of Jesus Christ. The next three weeks focus on the Bible, the Book of Mormon … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening Solutions

It is important to have family home evening every week. This is a time to spend with your family and to teach your children about the gospel, and about life. It is a time that should really be positive and not negative. There may be times when family home evening becomes frustrating because of the behavior of children in your family. It can be frustrating to have a lesson for a toddler who just won’t sit still. You may fill as though your work is not worth anything. You may also feel as though he is distracting the other family … Continue reading →

Protecting Families

It is important to take the time to protect your family. This can take on several different meaning depending on the type of protecting you may think your family needs. One of the most important ways to protect your family is help the members to stay close to each other. This is essential in building a strong family unit, and in providing support for each family member as he may face his struggles throughout his life. The family is the basic unit of the church, and as parents we have a strong responsibility to protect our families. Here are five … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Bible Stories

This week’s family home evening lesson is loosely based on “The Miracle of the Holy Bible” by Elder M Russell Ballard. You may want to take time to read this talk and highlight any specific portions that you want to cover with your children. Additionally you may want to spend some time preparing your children for conference. You may want to emphasize that the stories and counsel given in conference are just the same as when the prophets in the Bible spoke to the people of their time. You may also want to ask your children to come prepared to … Continue reading →

Week in Review — September 17th – 22nd

We’ve had a lot of great articles here in LDS this last week. In case you missed any, here’s a rundown for you: Tristi wondered if it was time to address a sensitive topic in Is It Time to Teach Your Child the Facts of Life? She also posed questions about our willingness to share our religious beliefs in Do We Share What We Believe? In Chances to Be Good, she discussed the ways in which we are given the opportunity to live our beliefs. Miriam presented Week 35 in her dinner discussion series, and in Treating Others Kindly, addressed … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening and Scripture Study Roadblocks

We are instructed to hold regular family home evening, scripture study and prayer. I have blogged about the benefits of this numerous times. There are times in our family in which we are extremely successful in doing these things on a daily basis, and times when we are not. When we are going through the not-so-good times, I have found that it is usually one or a combination of the following five things. 1) Poor planning is one common reason why we do not have a well-planned out family home evening or we have a hurried prayer before my daughter … Continue reading →