In my last post, I wrote about this article from NPR, and what the secret is to getting your children to love doing their chores. This post is the second half of the same article. If you lined up 2 year olds from every country, whether from Hong Kong or from farms in Argentina, they … Continue reading Toddlers Are Born Assistants
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What Indigenous Families Know
In a class I was teaching, a young mother told me about this article that was on National Public Radio’s website. It is called, “How to Get Your Kids To Do Chores (Without Resenting It)". This article strongly reinforces how important early exposure to family work is. These budding years, when it seems the most hardest … Continue reading What Indigenous Families Know
I Will Miss Clayton Christensen
A Great Man left us on January 23, 2020. Clayton Christensen focused on choosing character traits with his life and stories, over and over again. His life's mission was being a representative of Christ and improving the lives of those who he came into contact with. He battled the trifecta in the last ten years: … Continue reading I Will Miss Clayton Christensen
My Four Favorite Books of 2019
Since I was small my mother gave me the gift of loving to read. I love the fulfillment of a satisfying book. I love the tug of wanting to return to a good book that I am in the middle of. Here are my favorites of this year: George Washington, A Life, by Ron Chernow, … Continue reading My Four Favorite Books of 2019
Movies Dripping With Character
I LOVE movies that show character. I already posted here about one the women in my family try to see every year. Recently my college daughter needed to watch several movies for her Ethics Class. Right up my alley, baby! We chose "Babette's Feast" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", from the list. Both were … Continue reading Movies Dripping With Character
Fortifications
y At Sunday dinner a few weeks ago, my daughter told me about going to a fireside at BYU and a young married couple spoke of the husband's addiction to pornography. He talked about how he was first introduced and the grip it had on him during his teenage years, through his mission and then … Continue reading Fortifications
Discipline
My father had a PhD in Sociology, which meant he studied the behavior of people. My mother had a PhD in Child Development. They taught me that you reward what you want more of in your children and punish what you want less of. My mother would always end in with, "And when parents aren't … Continue reading Discipline
We Choose What is Important Each Day
Julie B. Beck, a former General Relief Society President, said: “Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and … Continue reading We Choose What is Important Each Day
Short Term Ease over Long Term Pain?
The art of being a Deep River Parent is a life long pursuit of focusing on the essential elements that will shape the character of our children. Many parents around us are showing us, “No, it’s too hard, too much energy and time. I am too busy with unessential pursuits.” A Shift in Parenting Has … Continue reading Short Term Ease over Long Term Pain?
Slimy, Frustrating and Hard
In the fourth month of my son’s mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was in a courtyard of a building in Mexico City, teaching a lesson to a small group of people. He was sweating profusely because of the heat , and struggling with his Spanish. He felt so inadequate, … Continue reading Slimy, Frustrating and Hard
"Peace Like A River…" 