Showing pictures is a GREAT way to start or enhance your family home evenings. Below are links to some awesome images you can use for family home evening. Chocolate Treats for FHE or Valentine’s Day Since its February and the month of Valentine’s Day, love, and chocolate (at least for lots of people I know), […]
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10 Fun Jokes for FHE
December can be busy and crazy! So hopefully adding these jokes to your next family home evening will lighten things up and add some laughs. A great gift to give is my favorite joke book Rejoice! Clean Humor. It has a great collection of all kinds of amusing things. FHEasy: A Year of Weekly Teachings […]
Favorite FHEasy Object Lessons
Object Lessons: A Great Teaching Method Object lessons win the prize for a memorable family teaching method. An object lesson is a lesson where a physical object is used to illustrate a point. Here are my personal favorites: The Floating Orange, Is It Immersed?, Both Sides of the Stick, and Just Pick Up the Treat […]
3 Tips for FHE on Halloween
Halloween is tomorrow! My kids have been looking forward to it for months. And it’s a little crazy around here. But FHE is FHE and this year it lands on Halloween. Now, normally, I don’t correlate my FHE lessons with Halloween. I mean, I guess I could kind of connect it to the idea of […]
Sunday-Sundae Object Lesson
Today I want to share with you a fun object lesson that I use in FHEasy in the “Sabbath Day Observance” lesson: making a yummy sundae (BTW – This activity was adapted from Richard R. Eubank’s book Is There an Object to Your Lesson?, page 66.) Set out a couple flavors of ice cream and […]
How to Get Confident about FHE
This is the third post in a series about common challenges with FHE: Time issues, Mood issues, and now the issue of getting to family night and not knowing what to do. NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO Wow. This is a hard one to face at family home evening time, but actually an easy one […]
FHE: Mood Issues
Is anyone in your family ever tired and grumpy right when family home evening is supposed to start? Or do you have a mix of tired adults and wired little ones? Whatever the case is at your house, one thing’s certain: everyone’s mood affects how family home evening unfolds. You can be a powerful influence […]
FHE: A Blessing or a Curse?
Let’s get really honest. Family home evening can be really frustrating, stressful, and disconnecting. The exact opposite of what it’s meant to be! I find over and over again that families aren’t enjoying family home evening as much as they would like, and it can feel very discouraging. I also find that the issues that […]
Free FHEasy Lesson: Seminary and Doctrin...
FHEasy LESSON ON SEMINARY! For many seminary students, it’s that time again. Time for school and seminary. In honor of this, I’ve made a special FHEasy lesson that focuses on seminary and includes the seven DOCTRINAL MASTERY scriptures not used in my book FHEasy (see below for a note about one of these scriptures). In […]
Helping Kids Get Enough Sleep
Last week, I shared a simple experiment that I used to learn how much sleep I need. Getting enough sleep dramatically improves my connection with my family and the quality of our family home evenings and scripture study. This week, I’m sharing how I’ve helped my kids learn how much sleep they need in a […]