Remember those times when your two year old wants to get herself dressed and  she does not want any help from you?  she gets to the point where she’s pulling the shirt over her head, but she’s stuck because she’s trying to push her head through the arm hole instead of the neck hole.  The harder she pulls the more frustrated she becomes until finally she cries  out “HELP!” In today’s episode, we are going to talk about our new theme, “God Wants to Help”.  God really does want to help us, but sometimes we are too stubborn or proud to ask for His help.  Once we can h ..read more

What causes a lesson to be engaging versus boring? In today’s episode, we talk about the four levels of questions and how we can use them to help elevate our lessons to be  more interactive and more meaningful for our families. Asking the right types of questions can create a framework that allows us to help our children learn without giving them the answer.  Kind of like teaching your child how to figure out what 9 X 8 is rather than just giving them the answer. Questions are a powerful tool for teaching. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/myteachin ..read more

We all have heard of family feuds that have lasted for years or generations, even to  the point that no one remembers what the original grievance was about.  History records the stories of Romeo and Juliet’s families, the Capulets and the Montagues or the Hatfields and Mccoys. Even the bible tells stories of Jacob and Esau, Leah and Rachel, and Joseph being sold into Egypt by his brothers.  These stories all illustrate that jealousy can lead quickly  to many other unkind and hurtful choices. However, some people chose forgiveness and that forgiveness allowed healing and lov ..read more

Have any of you ever asked yourselves one of these questions?   How do I get my child to stop lying?  What can I do to help my child follow through on what he says he will do?  How can I teach my children to be more dependable and responsible?  Well, if you have….  You’re in good company.  I don’t know of a family yet who hasn’t had issues with one of these values. This next month  we are going to be focusing on how we can teach our children to keep their promises.  Whether it is keeping their word when they said they would clean their room, or a commitm ..read more

Have you ever tried picking up half a stick?  No matter how hard you try, the other end always comes with it. So it is with our choices.  They all have a consequence.  Good, bad or indifferent. Every action has a reaction associated with it. In a world where victim mentality is so prevalent,  it is important we teach our children the power they have to choose. In today's podcast we talk about how we are going to focus on this theme of choices and consequences.   We share our ideas of how to introduce the theme to your family through a fun object lesson so that you ..read more

The month of December can be a hectic time and keeping up with your family scripture study can often feel like one more thing on your checklist to get done. In today's episode, Dixie Christensen shares how she is simplifying her scripture study to accommodate both Christmas and CFM.  She shares some great ideas of how to use our December theme of “ I Believe” to help her family connect the birth of the Christ Child to the Jesus we talk about in the scriptures and the principles of the gospel we believe in that will be discussed in our Come Follow Me for the rest of the year. Dixie shares ..read more

Do you envision Christmas as a magical time with excitement and joy and love flowing through the air or do you think of Christmas as stressful, tiring, and hectic?   How can we make Christmas be more magical, where we actually experience the spirit of Christmas and not the stress and bustle of the holiday season with the present buying, and the party planning, and the house decorating? In todays episode Tiffany Hinkson shares with us her ideas of how to bring back the magic of Christmas by simplifying our holiday season. Download her FREE Simplified Christmas Planner here. --- Send in a v ..read more

There is a line in a primary song that says  - God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be— Why would having a family help us become what God wants us to be?  I truly believe that having a family is a gift from God and that it is within the family unit that we practice the many things we need to learn to become like God.  Pes Nelson once said, "The home is the great laboratory of love. There the raw chemicals of selfishness and greed are melded in the crucible of cooperation to yield compassionate concern and love one for another." 1 Spending time with our love ..read more

It's not enough just to teach our children the gospel, we also need to teach them how to teach others the gospel.  As a novice mother I made the mistake of thinking that just because my children had grown up going to church every week, having family scripture study every day and Family Home Evening every week, they would automatically know how to give a coherent ,well thought out lesson.  Oh how wrong I was.   Knowing how to be an effective teacher takes practice.  Allowing our kids to practice at home where the stakes are low is so important for preparing them to teach out ..read more

What is driving you crazy in your family right now?  Is it that the kids are fighting all the time? Is it 6 year old Abi   who is afraid to try anything new and constantly needs your help to do simple tasks? Or Maybe it’s eight year old Max who loves to tease and harass the younger kids until they are crying and whining - causing constant contention. Or  possibly the fact that Alex has a propensity to embellish the truth to the point you can’t trust a thing she says. What is a parent to do ? Being a parent is hard.  It seems like there is always something or someone wh ..read more