Aug
4
I thought I’d share this very cool movie tool. The website is called www.kids-in-mind.com They have three categories to rate a movie, each category having a 0 to 10 scale, 10 being the worst (or the most) and 0 being the safest (or the least). The categories are Sex/Nudity, Violence/Gore, and Profanity. The categories are [...]
Jul
26
Children's Hymn I Am A Child Of God
Category: Auditorial Pleasures, Families, Hazel-isms, Spirituality | 
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During Music Time (or Spot or whatever you’d like to call it) in Relief Society I talked with the sisters about this hymn. I asked my daughter Hazel who is now five years old, “how does this song make you feel?” She said, jumping, “HAPPY!” I confirmed, smiling, “It makes you feel happy?” “Yes, and [...]
Jul
26
Heroic Qualities in Youth
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Here is another post that survived because it was somewhere else. A bit of explanation and background: For a few years now the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been putting out a series of lesson books to be used in Relief Society and Priesthood meetings. The series is called Teachings of Presidents [...]
Jul
25
Life Messages
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This is one of the few posts that survived the blow up because I had the contents some place else. I still feel it has merit and I am reposting it now. This was posted in December of 2007. In parenting class I was asked to write six life lessons or messages I wanted to [...]