We just finished family home evening and it was a blast! My husband is a self-employed arborist and his busy season is starting, so he doesn’t always make it home for FHE. Tonight, he missed dinner and the FHE lesson but made it for the activity, which was three kinds of bubbles! Even if you […]
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Your Gift for FHE’s 102nd Anniversary
Do you like treats for family home evening? In honor of the 102nd anniversary of family home evening, I’m offering a list of food and treat ideas that go along with each lesson in FHEasy. Just contact me here or email me at Tina@FHEasy.com and tell me how you’ve used and/or shared FHEasy. You can […]
A Marital Kick in the Pants!
Have you ever had a sudden revelation that felt like a full on kick in the pants? Or sometimes I call it being hit over the head with a spiritual 2×4. Wow. It hurts like the dickens, but on the flip side, you really needed the wake up call. That’s how I felt when I […]
When Kids Are Uninterested in FHE…
Once there was a young man who was very popular. As a high school student, he was crazy busy between school, activities, Church, dating, and working. His family did family home evening weekly and family scripture study before school. It was so hard for him to get there, much less look lively! He’d sit with […]
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 […]