Families In Today's Society

            Anyone that has ever seen a Hallmark movie in their lifetime knows that there is always a happy ending, and that life seems to always be easy and perfect for those families. But those of us that actually live in the real world know that that is just simply not the case. Things don’t always have a happy ending, and life isn’t always as easy or as fair as we think it should be. There are things that are thrown at us at any given time, and we don’t know why. In these moments, it’s important that we have someone, or something that we can turn to for comfort. A lot of the time that support group is our family. They are some of the people you love most, and they will always have your back. But what do you do in times when it is actually your family that hurt you, or is causing you the stress? Sometimes stresses and trails we face in our families are the toughest to go through. It is crucial that we don’t all...

           I think that we all can agree that parenting is a very sacred trust given to us by our Father in Heaven. He is literally trusting us to raise His spirit children in our homes. This sacred responsibility comes with so much that I think sometimes we don’t even realize. We need to provide for our kids, we need to protect our kids from dangers, and I think most importantly, we need to teach our kids. Looking into teaching them opens up another big wormhole of what we need to teach them. We need to teach them about the gospel and all the countless blessings it will bring into their lives, we need to teach them about the difference between right and wrong, we need to teach them to share with others, we need to teach them how to recognize and deal with their emotions, and the list goes on and on. You might have noticed that I left one minor topic off of that list. Well the truth is that it really is a topic that I don’t think any pare...

              In my last post I talked about some important aspects of dating. One point I mentioned is how important good communication is in a relationship. The two of you have to be on the same page and know where each other are at. You have to communicate properly about exactly where you are in your relationship, and where you see it going eventually. I also talked about the plague that is taking over in today’s dating world known as “hanging out.” People aren’t going on dates like they used to. Everyone is just spending time together, with nothing happening that is furthering the relationship. Today I am going to continue with the topic of dating, as well as talk about the transition that takes place from dating to marriage.               In class we talked about a model for dating called “assertive dating.” You start off by dating a big group of dif...