Home Evening Lesson on American Principles of Freedom
In a home evening lesson yesterday, I taught my family a short lesson about the principles of freedom and religious liberty. You are welcome to use my presentation with your family. Download it as a PDF or PowerPoint file. LDS365 is publishing a series of articles...
How To Have Essential Family Conversations
Church leaders have long taught about the helpfulness of family councils. Essential conversations in the safety of our homes can help us prepare for the avalanches of life. “Essential Family Conversations” gives tips and ideas on how to hold conversations...
Resources For Service Projects For Children and Youth
Around the world, children and youth serve others with their families and friends, in Primary service activities, and in Young Men and Young Women activities. Parents and leaders can lead by example, teach about service, and serve together with Primary children, Young...
How Parents and Youth Can Prepare For New Sunday Lessons
Beginning September 6, the lessons in Aaronic Priesthood and Young Women meetings will focus on truths in the updated edition of For the Strength of Youth: A Guide for Making Choices. This updated guide is available in the Gospel Library app, online, as a downloadable...
How To Have Better Parent-Child Communication
It can be tough to connect with your kids, especially if they don’t want to connect with you. As parents, we want to have a close, meaningful relationship with each of our children. But for loving, intimate relationships to work, open and sincere communication is...
How To Talk With Teenagers about Religion
Teenagers and young adults are increasingly interested in talking with their parents about spiritual and religious matters. As children mature into adolescence, they tend to spend less time with their parents in joint activities but more time engaged in conversation....
Tips for Teaching Repentance to Teens and Younger Children
Repentance sometimes sounds scary or confusing to children and teenagers. The article “10 Tips for Teaching Repentance” provides tips for teaching repentance in a loving, empowering way. Here are the first four tips from that article: Keep it simple. You...
Building Emotional Resilience With Youth and Children
Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt to emotional challenges with courage and faith centered in Jesus Christ. Research shows that a supportive, nurturing relationship with an adult is a strong predictor of resilience in children. The following two resources...
How to Help Children & Youth Take Charge of Technology
When used appropriately, technology can be an amazing way to help children and youth learn, including principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. One way to teach them how to take charge of technology safely is to consider this pattern: PURPOSE, PLAN, PAUSE. The images...
How to Get the Most Out of Parent-Child Time
Spending time with children is one of many ways to love and support them. But parents often have difficulty finding as much time as they would like to spend with their children. The article “Getting the Most out of Parent-Child Time” provides strategies to...
Christmas Resources For Your Family
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has published a page of Christmas resources, including ideas for celebrating Christmas and articles about what Christmas means to us. It also contains answers to common questions, a link to Light the World resources, and...
Weekend Movie Pick: Jurassic World
This week’s movie pick is Jurassic World. (See other “Weekend Movie Picks.”) Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John...
Weekend Movie Pick: Uncharted
This week’s movie pick is Uncharted. (See other “Weekend Movie Picks.”) In this movie, a young street-smart kid (played by Tom Holland) and his wisecracking partner (played by Mark Wahlberg) embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure...
Weekend Movie Pick: Escape From Germany
This week’s movie pick is Escape From Germany. (See other “Weekend Movie Picks.”) This movie from master storyteller T.C. Christensen tells a story from Church history that is fascinating and faith affirming. The film takes place in Germany, days...Follow on social media