“I know I’m supposed to start looking for a wife. But I don’t even know how to date!”...
Young Men of Marriageable Age (YMOMA) may offer a variety of excuses for their failure to get serious. One of them is the Fear ...
Monday’s massacre of innocent people, particularly innocent runners, is pointed in its psychological cruelty. Of all those to...
I went to my class with a 4 ft Burmese python in a pillow case. I asked the young man sitting next to me to hold the bag- with ...
Friendship dating, or what I refer to as “Casual Dating,” appeals to more guys than you can imagine...
Lessons on dating and life gleaned by a mountain biking mama. ...
Nothing says family togetherness like a run through the mud and the muck- literally!...
Splitting a ward may put youth in units with people they don’t like, or it may separate them from friends. How can we help y...
How can parents encourage their independent-minded teenager not to date until they are old enough? Especially when outright for...
I recently met a woman who had attended the Mormon church in her youth and the one thing she could remember about it was a less...
My sister had everything, but I only wished for one of her possessions....
“It’s bad enough that they start advertising Christmas before Thanksgiving,” my friends lament, “but Halloween?!!” I...
Some of the most difficult counsel the LDS Church gives to youth just got a whole lot easier to follow. This counsel has been ...
The implication of the brash, brazen, bold message of this film, is that Bella has found the love of the ages.Therefore, she is...
As shameful as it is to hide our light and refuse to stand up for what we believe, equally shameful is utter intolerance for be...
The excitement billowing through the Church about Young Women having the opportunity to serve missions at age 19 hasn’t been ...
I imagine more young men being worthy when it’s time to serve a mission; I imagine fewer missionaries being distracted while ...
There is an aphorism in our culture that claims you have to kiss a few frogs before you find your prince. A smart child will as...
Youth dances are the epitome of an youth activity that has the potential to either foster healthy youth interactions or foment ...
If we think that we lose our credibility as parents simply because we have made mistakes, then no parent will have credibility ...
Going steady with members can be every bit as dangerous as going steady with non-members, if not more so. Youth may let down th...
I’ll wager that whenever you say “no” to one person, it’s not so you can be lazy or indulgent. Chances are, you say “...
Almost 40 years ago 2million people bought When I Say No I Feel Guilty. That tells me that at least two million people had trou...
My favorite calling in all the church is Primary Chorister- the “gospel doctrine teacher for the children.” But of all the ...
For many Latter-day Saint youth, the “For The Strength of Youth” pamphlet is practically scripture. This year significant c...
Looking back I realize that full-time mothering doesn’t last that long. ...
The newest movie in the Twilight series has so much merit, it’s a shame it’s about vampires and werewolves—and that we ca...
When she said “Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger,” I wanted to punch her in the nose. Why do I want to ge...
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I signed up the second I heard about Facebook, when one of my sons in college sent me photos. Within a short time I was discou...
Does all the hoopla we put into prom set our kids up for thrills it was never meant to deliver?...
For some of us, the most joyous time of the year is the most difficult. An LDS therapist tells us why....
We can hardly expect our teenagers to avoid romantic relationships when the adults in their lives think they're so cute or cons...
Can you imagine yourself standing in the moonlight, face to face with the man of your dreams, staring into his eyes and he whis...
A young man with stratospheric clout is teaching your daughter about sex and romance. Do you want her to listen? ...
It’s a tad disconcerting to think that the world believes Stephanie Meyer is reflecting Mormon values simply because she does...
While my teenage daughter was away at girls’ camp I sneaked into Eclipse to screen the movie for her and brought along two fr...
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Photos by Scot Facer Proctor...
Some have asked how can gay marriage threaten the stability of heterosexual marriages. They are asking the wrong question and h...
Have you heard this one lately? 'Don't shove your religion down my throat!' In this hypersensitive age, who hasn't!...
Scriptures and prophets identify the U.S. Constitution, signed 215 years ago today, as monumentally significant. It should be m...
I believe that we are in the wilderness, that we are in the wilderness because of too many lies told and too many lies believed...
I was amazed at the titles and stated purposes of their textbooks. For example, a math book is titled Applying Mathematics; Lea...
If you live near Washington D.C., you can help make a stand for family and religious freedom next week....
How do you make your neighborhood so inclusive and h appy that nobody wants to move? By Whitney Johnson...
The war in heaven has a new location-right here on earth....
Even as Mormons have become more prominent, they have struggled to overcome lingering prejudices and misrepresentations about t...
Why does anyone need to keep in touch with 400 people that they hardly ever see, people they would never go out of their way to...
Michael Otterson, head of worldwide public affairs for the Church answers this question with an important statement....
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". . . turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers . . . less the earth be curs...
crux (kruks) n. the basic, central, or critical point or feature... The family is the crux of society. Understanding what is ha...
The family is the nucleus, like the center of an atom or the core of a tree, making everything else possible, providing the bui...
The malignancy and terror of what we benignly call "social problems" is torturing individuals and blackmailing society. It is a...
The social problems that are overwhelming this country must be cured. But the medicine we're using isn't working. We're treatin...
crisis (kri'ses) n. 1. an exceedingly serious situation; 2. a critical or decisive point or situation, a turning point, as in a...
How our newest, largest institutions are destroying the oldest, smallest institution of family. Social problems are the symptom...
The family, and its basic purposes and functions, is being swallowed up, undermined, and rendered irrelevant by our larger inst...
The public sector, rife with sins of commission and omission, is damaging the family....
Why don't families have more resistance against the perils inflicted on them by the three bigger, outer sections? Because we do...
Part 12 begins our discussion of the "culprits" . . . the forces that, often unintentionally, are destroying our families and m...
There is nothing families need more than employment and income. Yet, ironically, more and more of the institutions that provide...
A closer look at the "family damage" that is done by entertainment and media institutions, information and communication instit...
From schools to "self-help" institutions, courts to recreational clubs, powerful organizations are harming the family....
In this week's column, having now finished our discussion of the "curse," the "cause," and the "culprits," we now move to the m...
This week, in part 17, we continue with the "cure" and focus on the power of recommitment....
This week we look at the tremendous challenge of teaching true principles in a false world....
In this installment, we continue our seven part "cure" (see the end of installment 16 for the seven-part list) with some though...
This week, in part 20, we discuss phase four and five of the "cure" -- being careful of larger institutions and insisting on op...
This week, in part 21, we're going to go with a much longer installment than usual in order to cover several important elements...
The trouble with so much of what we call "parenting" is that it's a defense rather than an offense....
We should ask public institutions in every forcible way we can think of to stop any practice or policy that threatens families ...
Large private, public, and nonprofit institutions make countless thousands of decisions, policies, and choices of direction and...
In this installment we conclude our thoughts on what several additional public and private institutions should be doing to stre...
Your experiences a week ago with the Leonid Meteor Shower have been awe-inspiring and fun to read. You took your families, you ...
The scriptures say that when Jacob arrived in Egypt, his descendants there numbered 70, yet there appear to be only 69 listed. ...
account of personal growth and experience, and it is made valuable and meaningful by the way we relate it. by James W. Petty, A...
