December can be busy and crazy! So hopefully adding these jokes to your next family home evening will lighten things up and add some laughs. A great gift to give is my favorite joke book Rejoice! Clean Humor. It has a great collection of all kinds of amusing things. FHEasy: A Year of Weekly Teachings […]
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Favorite Videos for FHE
Watching a good video can be a great way to start or enhance a family home evening. Here are links to three of my favorite videos on the temple, a kid-friendly introduction to pornography, and what Elder Uchtdorf always keeps in his pockets. Enjoy! “Focus on the Temple” used in FHEasy’s “Agency and Accountability” lesson, […]
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 […]
3 Ways To Make Family Dinner Smoother
In the last post “Why I Make Dinner Even When I Don’t Want To” I promised to share three things that I have discovered that make a HUMONGOUS difference is how smoothly our meals (and especially dinner) go. Here they are: Plan your meals ahead of time Prep your meals ahead of time Set the […]
Why I Make Dinner Even When I Don’t Want
Family meals at our house can be wonderfully bonding, but more often than I’d like, they can also be very frustrating. I prepare, serve, and clean up a lot of our meals and frequently wonder if it matters at all to my family that I work so hard to try to feed them well. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to Put First Things First
Book Review: First Things First by Stephen R. Covey Time management. Think about the concept. How does it make you feel? Confined or free? Stuck or supported? Rebellious or relaxed? Stressed or self-confident? We each have beliefs about time and time management. Some of us like to be very organized and planned and that creates […]