Here is a copy of the 5th Sunday Combined meeting lesson I gave on parenting. Sorry, it's just the notes I used, so it isn't really a final product, but you get the idea. Parenting with Love and….More Love I want to start by talking about guilt. On the guilt spectrum regarding parenting, there is a healthy amount of guilt. The amount that gets you motivated to action and excited to see a change in your family. Then, there is an unhealthy level of guilt. The paralyzing level that causes you to go into a depression because you feel like all hope is lost. Today, make sure you only allow yourself the healthy amount of guilt. Guilt is very helpful in creating change but too much becomes too much to handle sometimes. So, let's all commit today, to allow just enough guilt in to make a healthy change in our homes. If it gets to the unhelpful point, we commit to let it go and move on. Also, I realize that not everyone here...
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The Hubby
I am married to a really good man. I realize this. But, you know what I love. I love that I didn't marry as good of a man as I have now. Don't get me wrong, Dan has always been great, but he just keeps getting better. Our life just keeps getting better. I don't say this to make anyone think our life is perfect or better than theirs, because that is not the case, but I say it as a way of thanking God and my religion for helping us become better people. As we stay committed to each other, try to teach our kids, try to keep our marriage happy, try to become more spiritually attuned, try to provide for a family monetarily and emotionally, try to create a peaceful home, God blesses us for that. He blesses us monetarily with unexpected increases in pay, he blesses us spiritually with a greater desire to serve each other and others, he blesses us with a greater desire to study the gospel, with love in our home and children wh...