Family Home Evening: Family

The next topic in the “For the Strength of Youth” Guide is family. This can be a fun topic to plan a family home evening lesson and activity on. You know what is best for your family, and so you should prepare to teach according to the way that you feel prompted. You can open your lesson by reading the section on families in the “For the Strength of Youth” pamphlet. As a family discuss what the guide says about families and what each person’s responsibility is to help improve family life. Be sure that you talk about supporting other … Continue reading

Family Home Evening: Education

The next topic in the “For the Strength of Youth” booklet is “Education.” Following what I have done in this past, I have collected a few articles and ideas to use in order to create a family home evening on the topic of education. I think this is a very important topic, because having a good education opens doors that would otherwise remain shut. To start this family home evening lesson, you can read Alma 37:35. Then as a family you can read the section “Education” in the “For the Strength of Youth” booklet. Then you can read or pull … Continue reading

Jumpstarting Family Home Evening

Family home evenings are a time where we take time as a family to talk about the gospel, and to spend time together as a family. Church leaders have designated Monday nights as the night that should be set aside for this special family time. It can sometimes seem daunting to have a perfectly prepared lesson every week, especially when juggling all the things that come with having a family. Here are a few tips to having successful family home evenings: 1)One thing that works for my family is to have a chart that rotates responsibility for the different aspects … Continue reading