May
9
Academic Light–Parenting Pyramid
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Thanks to my sister Crystal for passing on this link. Great gospel-centered parenting ideas about teaching being more important than correcting. Check it out!
http://www.arbinger.com/downloads/parenting_pyramid.pdf
Aug
9
We are more the same than we are different.
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There’s a wonderful song on the “Women of Destiny” vol. 2 CD that I thought of today. It talks about different women in a community and how in the end, though we seem so different on the outside, “we have more in common than we ever choose to see, we care about so many […]
Jul
13
Academic Light–Using Stories to be Help-meets for our Husbands
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These thought are based on a paper by David C. Dollahite, Alan J. Hawkins, and Sean E. Brotherson entitled, Narative Accounts, Generative Fathering, and Family Life Education.
The second point I want to pull from this paper has to do with being a help-meet for the men in our lives. I have occasionally said, sometimes in […]
Jul
13
Academic Light–Using Stories to Facilitate Change
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These thought are based on a paper by David C. Dollahite, Alan J. Hawkins, and Sean E. Brotherson entitled, Narative Accounts, Generative Fathering, and Family Life Education.
This paper is about “narratives,” which simply are the stories people tell about their own experiences and the meaning they attach to those experiences. The paper focuses specifically […]
The Lord has taught us, “And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” (D&C 88:118)
In going back to school to study Marriage, Family and Human Development […]