The Pre-teen Girl’s Guide to being in Public
On the heels of #metoo and watching my oldest grow up, I’ve been trying to figure out how to help my daughter to have the tools for growing up and becoming a woman in...
Category: Family
The Plan and the Proclamation by Elder Dallin H. Oaks Lesson Plan
Elder Oaks began his talk,The Plan and the Proclamation, by relaying Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. I haven’t heard this parable referenced often in talks about family but I appreciated the opportunity to think...
Bound Feet
In third grade, my teacher taught us a little about China. The only thing I remember was that I heard of China’s ancient custom of footbinding for the first time. I learned that very...
Favorite Christmas Books for Kids
Every year, starting on December 1st, I set out a basket of holiday-themed children’s books, complete with a list of which books to read each year. Ideally, we would all sit together by a...
Emotional Labor: A discussion guide for partners and roommates
Are you about to enter a house-sharing relationship with someone? Would you like to reboot the divisions of emotional labor in your existing house-sharing relationship? Between getting married, living with roommates or extended family,...
Who is my mother? A contradiction in the Proclamation
I teach Sunday School in my ward, and when a lesson on the The Family: A Proclamation to the World came up in this year’s curriculum I asked someone else to take it. I...
Activity Days Lesson Plan on Heavenly Parents
I have a very special group of Activity Day girls. Many only come to Wednesday activities (because my co-leader and I pick them up). There was a time when I would have worried about...
Patriarchy Love Poetry
Want to say, “I love you,” to that special someone? And also, “I support the patriarchal order in the home”? Try one of these patriarchy–approved love poems for your sweetheart/head of household/helpmate. For her:...
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