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What Scripture Says About “Training Up a Child”

One of the most famous biblical passages on parenting has been presented as a good-news-bad-news type of pronouncement: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). It’s good news because there is a concreteness to it, an implied promise — if A, then B. If you do it right, she’s in. Which leads to the bad news part: If you do it wrong, he’s out. And every Christian parent, at some point, worries and stresses over doing it wrong. Perhaps we’ve focused on the wrong … Continue reading →

Home School Blogger Spotlight: Beginning Reading Help

Teaching a child to read is one question that arises quite often among homeschoolers or those considering homeschooling. Reading is obviously an essential part of education. A student who reads well will have a greater chance of success in all subjects. Everyone wants to be sure to put their child in the best position to learn how to read effectively and fluently. If you are looking for resources to help you teach your child click on over to Beginning Reading Help. Beginning Reading Help is designed to helping homeschoolers, teachers, tutors and parents find the tools they need to raise … Continue reading →

Would You Support Your Spouse?

As Ruthann8 pointed out, sometimes it is not so much a male/female thing in the way we respond to events as a personality issue. It can happen between you and your spouse, differing personalities affect the way you view a situation and how you react. What is important when this is the case is accepting and supporting each other, even if you don’t understand why they react as they do. Mick admitted recently the way I reacted to a situation and what I wanted to do about it, was not the way he would have handled it. But because he … Continue reading →

Summer is a Good Time for Classes and Extra Training

As long as your home business is not a summer business or one where you are working harder during the summer months than any other time of year (and there are plenty of home business that are seasonal), summer can be a downtime or a slow time. For those businesses where summer affords us a little more leisure or non-work time, this can be the perfect time of year to take a class or get some extra training to help us improve our skills and business savvy. Many of us find that business just naturally slows during the summer months. … Continue reading →

What Are Your Expectations of Childhood?

Most of us come to parenting with all sorts of preconceived notions and ideas about how our family is going to be, what kind of parent we will make and our personal philosophies about discipline and such. Many of us find that our philosophies shift quite a bit with the realities of actually parenting the child or children that we are blessed with. I do think it helps, however, to take stock of what we expect out of the period of childhood—do we think that childhood is for worry-free play and experimentation? Do we think that childhood should be spent … Continue reading →

Dear Heather … Hiring a Personal Trainer for Your Child

After a brief hiatus, our weekly Dear Heather … feature is returning to the fitness blog here at Families.com So if you have fitness questions, concerns or just want to know something, feel free to send it my way and I will do my best to get your questions answered. Dear Heather, I am very worried about my daughter. She’s 9 years old and she’s already much taller than most of the kids in her class or her age. But over the summer she started putting on weight and I know she is getting teased at school. I’m concerned about … Continue reading →

Exercise on Your Own Terms

One of the greatest gifts of the modern age is the television, the Internet and the technology to watch anything, anywhere and anytime. So if you want to exercise, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all you have to do is turn on the television – literally. We’ve talked about this before, the access we have to fitness DVDs, downloadable programs, iWorkouts on your iPod and iFitness from Nike and much, much more. But the thing is, despite the availability of so many different workout options, it doesn’t seem like there are many people out there who seem … Continue reading →

Don’t Quit Your Day Job

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Here’s my sage piece of advice for the day: Don’t quit your day job just yet. Work-at-home jobs typically take a while to send out that first paycheck (if you missed the reasoning behind that, please check this article out for more info) and so if you leave your steady office job counting on the paychecks from your work-at-home job to kick in quickly, you could hit a rough patch. But there is also the fact that although the work-at-home job seems like perfection personified, some people end up really not liking it. Strange, I know, and I wouldn’t believe … Continue reading →

RS/EQ: Ye Ought ‘Not Procrastinate the Day of Your Repentence’

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We are already a week into the new year. How are you doing at keeping your New Year’s resolutions? Have you started yet, or are you putting them off until ‘tomorrow’? Some resolutions may not matter, but others may well have eternal consequences. The first Priesthood/Relief Society lesson from “Teachings of the Presidents of the Church” is entitled “To Live With Him Someday.” President Kimball discusses the things we need to do to return home to our Heavenly Father. As I studied the lesson, one of President Kimball’s quotes stood out in my mind. One of the most serious human … Continue reading →

Top Ten Best Fitness Gifts You Can Give Yourself

We’ve spent more than a few articles discussing the types of gifts that you can give to others with fitness in mind, but let’s talk about the gifts that you can give yourself. Fitness is more than just a word to pay lip service too, it’s a life long commitment to a better self and in turn, a commitment to a better way of life for yourself and for your family. So what are the top ten best fitness gifts you can give yourself? Acknowledge that fitness has a place in your life – too often we say we would … Continue reading →