Hello, Friends! With Halloween upon us and Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s around the corner, many of us are thinking about the holidays. I’ve already talked to some people who are doing some “holiday weight prevention” strategies. They know themselves well! According to Brian Wansink, Cornell Food and Brand Lab Director and author of Mindless […]
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When Dad Wants to Help with FHE…
I just wanted to pop in and share one quick tip for FHE-dominant spouses. What’s that? Well, one spouse usually just heads FHE naturally; I call that spouse the “FHE-dominant spouse”. Often it’s the wife, but not always. If it’s you, please take a quick tip from me and don’t make the same mistakes I […]
Mom’s Birthday FHE Ideas
What do you do for family home evening when someone in your family is having a birthday during the week? Well, it’s my birthday this Saturday! The big 3-7. In our family, whoever has a birthday during the week gets to pick the FHEasy lesson, something from the family-home-evening-activity box, and the FHE treat if […]
Fast & Free Fudge Recipe!
A box of brownie mix, water, an egg (opt,), coconut oil, and nuts = perfect fudge? You bet! By total accident, I discovered a fast and easy way to make perfect fudge. I wanted to make brownies, but after I got the batter ready, it was pretty late and I didn’t want to wait for […]
Ideas for Easter FHE
Easter is next Sunday! The celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ! The reason Christians have hope and belief in life after death! Hallelujah! This is a wonderful time of year and a great reason to celebrate in our families. And … like all holidays in the United States, it’s been very highly commercialized. So […]
Quick Video for FHE Tonight!
Wow! Wasn’t general conference amazing? In the last talk of conference, Elder Cook said: If there is one preeminent objective of general conference, it is to build faith in God the Father and our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. The talks that I heard definitely helped me feel closer to Heavenly Father, the Savior, and […]
Free Spring Conference FHEasy Lesson
Next week is General Conference and I’m here to ask you three things: Do you have preparing-for-general-conference traditions? If so, do you and your family like them? If you don’t have conference prep traditions, would you like to experiment with some ideas or are you happy without having any traditions that help you and your […]
The ROI of FHE
This month I’ve been sharing the basics of a process of thinking and communicating called Nonviolent Communication (NVC) also known as Compassionate Communication. Today I want to talk about how family home evening and family scripture study are strategies that are intended to meet a variety of human needs. In NVC, people think in terms […]
5 Steps to Positive Conflict Resolution
Happy St. Patrick’s Day this week! I hope you and your family enjoy it. Last week, I shared the basics of the Nonviolent Communication process. Today, I’ll share the five-step process as I use it. 1 – Self-Connect First When in a conflict, self-connection has to come first in NVC. Until you give yourself empathy, […]
How to Use Anger Well
Last week I briefly introduced a positive conflict resolution technique called “Nonviolent Communication” (NVC) or “Compassionate Communication”. This process was created by Marshall Rosenberg and it involves a lot more than just communicating: it’s a different perspective on life and how to connect with yourself and others. It involves values, a way of thinking, and […]