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Rewards and Consequences for Kids
Do you use a rewards system for your kids? Does it work? I have a daughter who is very, VERY logical. The only time she is not logical is when she is having a nuclear melt-down...and when she recovers, she valiantly tries to explain exactly WHY she was so angry at us. (She's 5, taught...
Spelling and Beyond
My third grader came home with his first spelling test two weeks ago. We had studied the words during the week and he knew them all well. There were, however, three words with the letter p in them that he had written above the line so that the bottom of the p stem touched the line and the other...
I knew it was coming; I just didn’t expect it would hurt.
Well, I’m understanding Sharlee’s fabulous essay (the title essay in Segullah’s latest, Dance With Them) a little more now. I got the first “you’re standing too close” attitude from my teenager today. I had been braced for it—really, I swear!—but it still blindsided me somehow. He explained that...
Back To School Suggestions:
If you are sending your children back to school this year or if you homeschool your children you have the perfect opportunity to make fresh starts and new relationships. Fall is exciting because of all the new beginnings that happen. We also seem to be more motivated to start new projects and...
Primary activity was wake-up call for Carolina soccer legend
It was an ordinary Mormon Primary activity, something that wouldn't stick in anyone's memory. But this day in a North Carolina LDS chapel has been seared into the mind of one of college sports' most legendary coaches. An activity for fathers and daughters to strengthen their relationships...
Teenage Attitude Problems
This last week my twelve year old daughter had an attitude problem a number of times in one day. This is very unusual for her and definitely had me analyzing her and the day. She earned negative consequences many times and we had talks about the situations and practiced how she could have...
Afternoons of Nothing
I have just done my most radical act of parenting so far in my fifteen-year career of raising six children: I have pulled my children out of all extra-curricular activities. Even piano lessons. Last year I spent just about every afternoon driving little people to various lessons, games,...
No substitute for good communication in combating Internet smut
It takes more than just good computer filters and family rules to stop pornography addictions from forming. Good family communication is the key. "Filters and rules prevent accidental exposure," said Kimball Benson at BYU's Campus Education Week. But it won't stop those who are actively seeking...
Good-Bye
Mormon Life says: For anyone whose children are growing up.
Two days ago I sat in Primary and watched as my youngest child—my baby—received her Faith in God Award and stood at the front of the room, smiling, braces flashing, as the other Primary children...
A Parent's Worst Nightmare
Recently, I had an experience that made my heart pound like it did at my first dance. I sweated icy-cold buckets and my stomach cold have earned the knot-tying merit badge. My three-year old was lost. It was Sunday after our stake conference. It had been a busy weekend full of...
How Do You Get Your Way?
In May 2009 I allowed the BBC Britain to bring two troubled British teens to my home to make a show called “The World’s Strictest Parents.” They brought me two seventeen year olds named Hannah and James. For two days Hannah and James had tantrums and tried every way they could think of to...
BYU Education Week: Cell phone use? 'Be informed'
Parents should be careful about what type of phone they give their child, Dr. Charles Knutson said during his lecture at BYU Campus Education Week. With the increase of cell phone use throughout the world and the users getting younger and younger, parents need to be informed, he said. A computer...
Kentucky family's gifts of service honor prophet's birthday
Mormon Life says: Love this idea.
The Burnett family of the La Grange Ward, Crestwood Kentucky Stake, told about the gift they have been working on this year: Shortly after watching general conference last October our family...
BYU Campus Education Week: Educate your children to use Internet safely
Ten years ago, Internet safety was something few parents worried about when considering the needs of their families. Within the past few years, the growing popularity and accessibility of interactive media has brought up new possibilities, new problems and new ways of thinking. For many parents...
Families Can Be Together Forever
This was the best day of my life. Beautiful. Perfect. It was the day our family was sealed for Time and All Eternity in the Salt Lake Temple-- or the Pioneer Temple, as our family calls it. I'm the only Latter-Day Saint in my family as Mr. Wonderful is the only Latter-Day Saint ...
