The Meridian Family Value of
the Month
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have worked for them.
By Richard Eyre
I Give You My Permission
I am, here
and now, offering you absolution from all your guilt over being
an attentive, responsible, careful, loving, and strict parent.
By Orson
Scott Card
Parenting
"Difficult" Adolescents
Why "There is Hope"
If all we ever do in response to
those children we are afraid we are losing is be compassionate,
telling the truth in love, we are doing the most important thing,
we are being the most important kind of person we can be.
By Terrance
D. Olson
Parenting
"Difficult" Adolescents
Why "Nothing Works"
Parents sometimes long to be more
skilled than they know how to be. But there is something more
fundamental than technique. It cannot be grounded in mere technique
or strategy, but in the heart.
By
Terrance D. Olson
How
to Ask Questions that Open Up Communication
Unfortunately, most of us don’t
grow up knowing how to effectively talk to people. But we can
learn.
by
Gary and Joy Lundberg
Turning
Old Cliches into New Maxims: A
Change is as Good as a Rest
A rested body renews itself and
is more likely to stay free from illness, and a rested mind is
more receptive to intuition, to little "nudges" or impressions
or possibilities and to a clearer sense of priorities.
By
Richard Eyre
Turning
Old Cliches into New Maxims: Plan
Your Work and Work Your Plan
Goals
without plans or with fairly general plans have an interesting
kind of power. We seem to move toward them almost subconsciously,
as though they were magnets.
By
Richard Eyre
Turning
Old Cliches into New Maxims: Hurry
Up!
When our motto is “hurry up,”
there is always too much of things, of jobs, of obligations –
and too little time.
By
Richard Eyre
Turning
Old Cliches into New Maxims: “Act,
Don’t React”
Friends call at unexpected times.
Sunsets surprise us. Ideas come along at random times. Circumstance
change.
By
Richard Eyre
Turning
Old Cliches into New Maxims: Get Serious
We tell our children to "get
serious" at the very time they are enjoying themselves most.
And we trick ourselves into thinking that seriousness is synonymous
with success.
By
Richard Eyre
Turning
Old Cliches into New Maxims: Work Before Play
Part
Five
The interesting irony of today is
that many of us are extremely good at work, and disciplined and
dedicated to it – and very bad at play.
By
Richard Eyre
Don’t
Just Do Something, Sit There:
Turning Old Clichés to New
Maxims
Part
Four
Thoughtful "sitting there"
is rapidly becoming a lost art, stomped out by trying to do something
every minute.
By
Richard Eyre
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: Turning Old Clichés to New Maxims
Part
Three
In an increasingly complex world,
some things are less 'black and white' in terms of being worth
doing well or not worth doing at all.
By
Richard Eyre
Don’t
Just Do Something, Sit There:
Turning Old Clichés to New
Maxims
Part Two
Procrastination
can become a terrible habit; but, used selectively, it can actually
be a great technique for helping us prioritize what really matters.
By
Richard Eyre
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: Turning Old Clichés to New Maxims
Clichés often prompt unrealistic
expectations, turn us into dissatisfied perfectionists, or give
us inaccurate perceptions of the world around us.
By Richard Eyre
Column
12: Spiritual Empty Nest Parenting
(Understanding
That All of the Real Answers Are Spiritual)
When your children leave home, is it just
a loss or a rich maturing of the family? How do you maintain a
spiritual center for the family, when the kids have moved away?
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Column 11: Emotional Empty
Nest Parenting
Finding the Balance Between “Hanging On” and “Letting
Go”
You can never give too much love or support
for your grown children, so long as you couple it with confidence
in them and respect for their adult independence.
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Financial Emptying Nest Parenting
The
Balance between Assistance and Independence
How do we give our children financial self-reliance
and at the same time give them assistance when they need it?
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Empty Nest Parenting: The Power of Asking
Seems like we all have a lot of
telling to do when it comes to guiding our kids. How about the
more subtle and perhaps useful tool of asking?
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Politics
and the Family: A Diabolical Plan to Destroy the Family
Column
Five
If you wanted to destroy the family,
here is how you would do it.
by Richard Eyre
Questions
Regarding Grandparenting
Empty Nest Parenting
That glorious stage of grandparenting. What
is the biggest difference between parenting and grandparenting
and what exactly is your new role as grandparent?
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Politics
and the Family:Family is the Basic Unit of Society
Are the Biggest Institutions Destroying the Smallest?
Column Four
The importance of the family may
get lip service from our societal institutions, but the reality
is a far cry from what we need to maintain a healthy, vibrant
civilization.
by Richard Eyre
Questions
About Your Child's Marriage
Empty Nest Parenting
Your child is newly married with a home of
his/her own now. How does your role as parent change?
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Politics
and the Family:The Top Ten Family Issues
Column 3
This week Richard lays out his "Top 10 List" for
issues
that affect
the family most
by Richard Eyre
On
Grocery Shopping with Children: Nurturing Spiritual Self-Reliance
In rearing children, external punishments
and rewards are not nearly as effective as providing "conscience
training."
by
Elder L. Whitney Clayton and Kathy Clayton
Emptying Nest Parenting
Questions
about Your Son’s or Daughter’s Work, Life, and Career
How much should you be involved in your child's career decisions,
financial issues and even church activity once they leave the nest?
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Politics and the Family:
Making Politics Serve the Family
Column 2
A major problem in our society today is that
individual families, the cornerstone of society, are being neglected
and forgotten by the very institutions and individuals that were
created and elected to serve them.
by
Richard M. Eyre
Growing
Company Makes Modesty Fashionable
Parents as well as modesty-seeking
teens rejoice at "clothing your father would approve of,"
marketed by Modest by Design.
by
Laurie Williams Sowby
Politics
and the Family: The Basic Unit of Society
Column 1
When
we hear the phrase 'the family is the basic unit of society',
do we really understand what that means with all of its implications?
By
Richard M. Eyre
Emptying
Nest Parenting “Leaving Home for the First Time”
Parents experience a whole gamut of new emotions when children
leave home for the first time. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
by
Richard and Linda Eyre
Emptying
Nest Parenting : Eleven
Essential Elements
All families that last and produce security and happiness
for their members do have some fundamental things in
common.
by Richard and Linda Eyre
The
Law of the Fleas: The Nature of Freedom
There’s a time to nurture
and to hold close and safe and secure, and there’s a time
to take off the lid and encourage independent flight.
by Richard and Linda Eyre
Emptying
Nest Parenting (Column III)
The right perspective can make the
emptying nest phase of life more manageable and more approachable.
By
Richard and Linda Eyre
The
Lesson of the Tortoise
Almost everyone knows the story
of Aesop's fable about the Tortoise and the Hare, but few know
the real details.
By
Richard and Linda Eyre
Emptying
Nest Parenting
The children are finally gone and
you're on your own. Who ya' gonna call? Empty nest busters!
By
Richard and Linda Eyre
The Nature of Security -- The Law of the Redwoods Allegory
Redwoods grow straight and tall
by interlocking roots. Families can grow and stay together by
using a like method.
By
Richard and Linda Eyre
Readers Share Heartaches and Solutions about Children Who Have
Strayed
Many ask, why hasn't the Lord answered
my heart-felt prayers to bring my children back into the Church?
By
Darla Isackson
