Following Jesus – Church News

The next Friend to Friend broadcast will be available beginning Saturday, March 9, at 10 a.m. Mountain Time. Primary children, leaders and parents are invited to watch to learn the importance of following Jesus. The broadcast will feature special guests President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency, and his wife, Sister Kristen […]

Booking your summer holidays? Here’s how to travel more sustainably as a family

Worried about your travel footprint? Here’s how to reduce the impact of your family holidays. ADVERTISEMENT Sarah Faith is a content and values writer at activist travel company, Responsible Travel. Last year we drove to France with friends. They took their electric car, arrived three hours late and had to deal with two tired children […]

‘Co-regulation’ is the new parenting buzzword: How to do it

The increasing popularity of “gentle parenting” has launched a new buzzword into the child-rearing landscape: co-regulation.  Co-regulation refers to an adult helping a child soothe their own emotions during a stressful incident. Let’s say a child has a meltdown at the supermarket. Instead of admonishing them, gentle parenting, also known as responsive parenting, calls for […]

The Baby Jesus Taught Us How to Scream

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Before I begin, let me tell you that I hate what I am about to do. That’s because few things exasperate me more than the people who Well, actually Christmas songs. True, there was no innkeeper in the gospel Nativity accounts. We don’t know how […]

how to deal with missing your children when you’re away from them

It was last Monday that it truly hit. The recognition that I was going to be seeing my children for half of their childhood since divorcing. My kitchen clock showed 3.15pm, their school pick-up time. A wash of sadness came over me as I thought about them bundling out of school without me to scoop […]

What to say instead of ‘you can do anything’

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | Digitalvision | Getty Images Despite your instincts, telling your child that they can do “anything” can be counterproductive. “‘You can do anything,’ is positive, but it’s very generalized,” according to Joanna North, a consultant psychotherapist. “I think that we need to draw it down to specifics for children, and [find] […]

Here’s how to prevent a costly divorce

We all know divorces are not uncommon in the U.S. Some of the most public splits over the years have included those of celebrities such as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, and most recently, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner. In 2021, there were nearly 700,000 […]