Anyone of you who reads my blog knows how much I value family time. I truly believe that most of our problems can go away if we are strong and together as a family unit. When your family life is good, your WHOLE life is good. Work doesn't seem so hard, annoying neighbors don't seem to bother as much, and the little stresses of life start to show their true insignificance when you are happy in the home. I know I freak out and stress over silly things when I am not being the best wife and mom and Curtis even notices that his job drags on him more when we are having hard family times. Because of this I am constantly looking for more ideas, activities, crafts, lessons, and just nice thoughts about families that I can share with you all and by doing so, I ran across a GREAT website called... "Real Families, Real Answers".This wonderful website is posted by the School of Family Life and Home 
and Social Sciences programs at Brigham Young University. It has some wonderful ideas on families and how to help maintain them. Covering areas of how to strengthen a marriage, family relations, protecting family time, handling/dealing with anger, how to become a better parent, and dealing with family finances. They even go into some more specific areas that a family may have to deal with including overcoming family tragedies and how to keep pornography out of the home. I find this very helpful especially in today's world where sex is everywhere. It isn't a question of whether your loved ones will see it, but a question of teaching them to be stronger than it.
and Social Sciences programs at Brigham Young University. It has some wonderful ideas on families and how to help maintain them. Covering areas of how to strengthen a marriage, family relations, protecting family time, handling/dealing with anger, how to become a better parent, and dealing with family finances. They even go into some more specific areas that a family may have to deal with including overcoming family tragedies and how to keep pornography out of the home. I find this very helpful especially in today's world where sex is everywhere. It isn't a question of whether your loved ones will see it, but a question of teaching them to be stronger than it.
If you are a single parent, a blended family, or parent of a teenager they have information molded especially for your needs and situation as well.My favorite section that I have seen so far is "Protecting Family Time" 
. Here they focus on the fast paced world that we live in, where everyone from children to adults are over scheduled and pulled thin on time. They have suggestions and guidelines that can help our families become more connected and less stressed. If you would like some more information about the website and their publishers you can read more about what they do here.
. Here they focus on the fast paced world that we live in, where everyone from children to adults are over scheduled and pulled thin on time. They have suggestions and guidelines that can help our families become more connected and less stressed. If you would like some more information about the website and their publishers you can read more about what they do here.Please remember to add your link only if you are participating in Family Moment Monday. Family Moment Monday consists of people who are sharing crafts, activities, lessons, ideas, service projects or anything else that you can learn/do/enjoy as a family in your post. Please remember to link back to Motherhood For Dummies, so others can learn about F.M.M. and participate too.
That's a cool website! Good to have places to go for help with some of the tough questions!
ReplyDeleteI will definitely have to check that website out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for always having something great to remind us to keep lovin' on our families!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great website with a lot of resources! You're right about how having a good family life makes all the other troubles in life seem less stressfull.
ReplyDeleteVery cool--thanks for passing along this site :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post and thanks for the link. You're spot on about how everything just seems so much better when family life is running smoothly!
ReplyDeleteOooo I like that website!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll check out the websites!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great website. I will check it out. Thanks for sharing. (I wrote a FMM post.)
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids were younger I was always looking for ways to make things more fun, from green mashed potatoes on St Patricks Day and pink ones on Valentines Day to having a picnic in front of the fireplace for dinner. Once I put all the dining room furniture upside down and we sat on the floor to eat dinner on the upside down table. The kids thought it was funny, but not nearly as funny as when I went shopping in the evening and they got to help Dad put all the living room furniture upside down! They all got right into it. Gotta keep it interesting and fun.
ReplyDeleteYou are so wise and I completely agree with you. A strong family life is everything. :)
ReplyDeletevery cool!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great website referral! I totally agree about the family. I work so hard to defend mine. I feel like it's a full time job, but a wonderful one:)
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