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Family Home Evening: Troubleshoot Your Problems

Family home evening and family council are designed to help you bring more focus in your family life. At times it may feel like you are just going through the motions to meet each week as a family with family home evening or that your family council meetings are not as effective as you would like them to be. It is important to make the most of the time that you have together as a family. If you feel that your family home evenings are not effective ask yourself these five questions, and you will likely find yourself back on … Continue reading →

Effective Family Prayer

Family prayer is one of the best ways that you can keep your family spiritually grounded. It gives you the opportunity to invite the spirit into your home and your family’s lives each day. It also gives you the opportunity to teach your children how to pray and what to pray for. Family prayer helps you to show your children how much Heavenly Father loves them, and where the gospel stands as a priority in your life. If you are having problems with holding family prayers, you may need to ask yourself a few questions in order to come up … 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 →

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 →

Do You Find Family Prayer Frustrating?

Family prayer can often seem to be a struggle. It really does not matter what age your children are. The young toddlers seem to love running around the room as soon as you start praying. The children in elementary school seem to poke each other if they are sitting too close together, and the teenagers just complain in general. Of course you will not experience these problems every time you have family prayer, but it can get frustrating. It is important to remember what you are accomplishing when you pray together as a family. Even though your children may not … Continue reading →

LDS Family Week in Review: May 20th – 26th

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We had another great week in the LDS Families blog. We took a look at our Gospel Doctrine lesson and expanded our horizons a bit. Gospel Doctrine: This week’s Sunday School lesson is entitled “Thy Faith Hath Saved Thee.” It covered a variety of ways that people expressed their faith in the Lord and were spiritually saved because of it. In Cry Day and Night, we discussed how prayer affects us. In Men Ought Always to Pray, we talked about how to pray without fainting. In They…Rebuked Him, we talked about how other people might affect our relationship with God … Continue reading →

RS/EQ: Family Prayer When All Participate

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I know I have been neglecting the Relief Society and Elders Quorum lesson of late; my deepest apologies! (You can see my families.com journal for my excuses list, LOL). I am especially sorrowful with this lesson, as I really loved it when I studied it in December. I would like to share with you something that I took from the lesson and have applied to my life over the last three months. When talking of family prayer, President Kimball urges us to make it a kneeling prayer. “All of the members of the family, including the little ones, should have … Continue reading →

Primary Time: Teaching Children About Personal Prayer

Personal prayer is an important concept to teach your children. We begin to teach our children to pray as soon as they are able to talk. It is important that the children truly understand the concept of prayer. It is also important that they begin to make the transition to a truly personal prayer where they begin to talk to their Heavenly Father and seek advice and help. Here are five tips to help. 1) Children learn best when they see you pray. When you have family prayer pray about the needs of your family, and the things that you … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Goals

The new year is a great time to have a family home evening based on goals. It is important to teach your children how to set and achieve goals. It teaches how to progress and to achieve their dreams. It can also bring a great sense of accomplishment to them. During this lesson you may want to have your children set goals in specific areas. You can share the goals you are setting. It is great if you can work out a way to support each other throughout the process. You can open the lesson by sharing 2 Nephi 28:30. … Continue reading →

Primary Time: Five Easy Topics for Talks

One great aspect of Primary is that each week a different child gets to give a talk. This is great because it allows children to become accustomed to public speaking at a young age. It is also fun just to hear the cute things that kids say. One difficult thing is to come up with ideas for your children to talk about. Here are five ideas for Primary talks. 1) The easiest topic is to simply choose the theme for sharing time that month. You can find a scripture story about the topic or you can share a personal or … Continue reading →