Posted in Family, Healthy Living on Apr 22nd, 2008 Discussion »
“Mom, why did you have so many kids?”
A reasonable question by a seven year old with ten other brothers and sisters.
“Well, we really wanted to stop with Angela,” (number five in the line up) “but they just kept coming…” my mom offered by way of explanation.
It was at that moment that I formed the opinion […]
Posted in Parenting, Humor on Apr 3rd, 2008 Discussion »
Most of America’s population think it’s improper to spank children, so I have tried other methods to control my kids when they have one of “those moments.”
One that I found effective is for me to just take the child for a car ride and talk. They usually calm down and stop misbehaving after our car […]
Posted in Parenting, Church on Mar 27th, 2008 Discussion »
It makes me laugh when people—generally those who like to do whatever they want, whenever they want—say, “You can’t legislate morality.”
Of course we can. And we do. Every single law ever enacted legislates morality—from someone’s point of view.
When people make similar arguments about “forcing” religion on children, it doesn’t make me laugh. Now we’re talking […]
Posted in Family, Music, Music on Mar 19th, 2008 Discussion »
Lonestar was playing in the background as I drove my 13 year old son to school this morning. He was singing along to My Front Porch Lookin’ In when an instrumental break began, and an interesting conversation ensued.
Posted in Marriage, We Are All Mothers on Mar 18th, 2008 Discussion »
A thread was recently resurrected in the forum from last summer. You can read the original post here. The sister in question wanted to know about temple marriage and marrying a less active member. I have written before that I got married when I was 30. I had to deal with a lot of frogs […]
Posted in Parenting, Television on Feb 17th, 2008 Discussion »
Narrator: Life has it’s challenges.
Actress 1: Every morning I bring my son to school and I rush off to a breakfast meeting. By the time I come home, he’s asleep.
Narrator: But there’s one thing that helps you keep it together.
Posted in Parenting, Faith, Homeward Bound on Jan 5th, 2008 Discussion »
The Savior teaches that we need to have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. (See 2 Nephi 2:7; 3 Nephi 9:20, 12:19.) I grew up in the Church, and consequently I have heard this phrase over and over. It seems that I even used to take it for granted in a “yada, yada, yada” […]
Posted in Family, Self-Improvement on Oct 15th, 2007 Discussion »
When I was in college—decades before iPods and little white earbuds swept the world—I was in the minority, bouncing about campus plugged into my tunes.
It was much more tedious back in the days before you could just rip a CD. Hours were spent carefully selecting just the right mix for different moods. The phonograph record […]
Posted in Parenting, Character, Marriage on Sep 9th, 2007 Discussion »
Divorce. Never mind the details, I just need to minimize the impact.
Posted in Book Club, Marriage on Sep 1st, 2007 Discussion »
And They Were Not Ashamed: Strengthening Marriage Through Sexual Fulfillment trade paperback
And They Were Not Ashamed: Strengthening Marriage Through Sexual Fulfillment audio CD
By Laura M. Brotherson
Finally! a book about physical intimacy and marital ONEness that is comprehensive, in-depth and frank, yet respectfully reverent while shining a light into the mysteries of the female heart and […]
