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Great Deals on Fun Family Spring Break Activities

If you have a little slugger in your family he (or she) is guaranteed to go batty for the incredible spring training deals being offered by Florida’s Grapefruit League and Arizona’s Cactus League. Both baseball organizations are offering outstanding opportunities for your little ones to catch big-league action at a relatively small price. What’s more, if you are traveling from out-of-town to see these athletes in action, you can save on hotel accommodations too. For example, Seralago Hotel & Suites (considered one of central Florida’s most affordable and family-friendly properties), is offering a spring training special to families who stay … Continue reading →

Stake Activities: Stake Sports

Stake sports are a long tradition within the church. There are a variety of different sports that the church plays and teams tend to be set up according to the ward you attend. Stake sports can be offered for adults and for the youth. These programs give the participants a chance to interact in a fun positive environment. The sports program can include softball, baseball, and basketball. Youth sports usually take place on Saturday mornings, although they may take place on a weekday depending on the area in which you live. The practices may be separate or they may be … Continue reading →

Ward Activity: Ward Talent Show

A great ward activity is the ward talent show. This can be a lot of fun for everyone involved. It is important to make this activity as appealing to as many people as possible. You should try to keep the program to no longer than an hour. You should also involve as many people as possible. Here are a few ideas to add varieties to your ward talent show. 1. Consider setting up a display area for talents that do not convey well on the stage. Artworks and crafts are nice to look at and it allows those people to … Continue reading →

Ideas for Halloween Ward Activities

Halloween is coming soon and your ward is likely having one of the usually activities. You may be having a fall carnival, a trunk or treat activity, a chili cook-off or a combination of the three. If these seem a little mundane or trite to you, you may consider changing up the activities a little bit. 1) You could have a costume dance for the youth. You could extend this activity into a service project by inviting the older members to the dance and playing oldies (or older) music to dance to. 2) You could offer a story time for … Continue reading →

Three Ward Activities for Adults

When it comes to planning ward activities, it is occasionally nice to have one that is adults only. This gives all the adults a chance to interact without little ones climbing all over the place. If you do this, it is important to provide a nursery for those who would like to attend. Often all the babysitters will be taken if the whole ward wants a sitter. You can also provide an activity for the teenagers. Here are three fun and easy ideas to complete. 1) One fun idea is a progressive dinner. The planning for this idea is mainly … Continue reading →

Ward Activities: Pinewood Derby

Recently my ward had a great ward activity. Every year Cub Scouts holds the Pinewood Derby, and sadly more often than not dads will make the cars for their sons. The competition is very fierce, and often the activity does not end in a positive light. Well our ward had a Pinewood Derby Ben Hurr Style. This was a no holds barred Pinewood Derby. There were very few rules. The first was that your car had to finish to qualify. There was a five pound weight limit. You could have a motorized car. Anyone could enter, so there could be … Continue reading →

Traveling With Three Generations: Where To Go With The Grandparents

In a previous blog I detailed one of our family’s favorite traditions. As a child growing up in Hawaii each Labor Day weekend our entire family (my grandparents, parents, brothers, and I) would squeeze into two vehicles for four action packed days at a resort located on the opposite side of the island. My brothers and I looked forward to the trip each year. We had the best time and the memories made during those trips remain with me today. Of course, those family trips were made decades ago. Which is why I found it interesting that a new study … Continue reading →

When Baby Makes Three (Part I)

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Many people believe they will “live happily ever after.” In reality, the changes that come with parenting can be dramatic and unexpected. We cannot anticipate how the shift from being a couple to being a family will affect us. But knowing that tension, fear, anger and sadness are as much a part of being a parent as joy and fulfillment reassures new parents during what could be a very confusing and lonely time in their lives. Trials and Tribulations Don and Kit, for example, found themselves pregnant in the very beginning of their relationship. The trials they experienced in the … Continue reading →

What fMRI Research Says About Teenage Brains

Teenagers are quick to press that they are young adults and should be treated as such. That has some validity with older kids, but younger teens are simply not young adults. When you’re in the midst of your eighth free-fall plunge in three weeks, this time because he didn’t get the part he wanted in the school play or she found out an unflattering picture was posted on someone’s Facebook page, I understand the draw, the temptation, for weary parents to want to see the adult light at the end of the teen tunnel prematurely. I understand you can be … Continue reading →

The Sometimes Schoolers

There is unschooling. There is e-learning. There are formal homeschooling methods that are based on other curricula or ideologies, such as classical homeschooling, Waldorf, and Montessori. In our city, there seems to be a new breed of homeschooler emerging, one that may transform the worlds of school-based education and home-based education. These educational renegades are not interested in school as it’s been done for years, that Monday to Friday, 8-something am to 3-something pm grind. Yet they’re not averse to having their children participate in a regular program of learning that is conducted by people outside the family. Let’s call … Continue reading →