The Secret Power of Sharing Meals Together
Engaging in regular family dinners protected against the harmful effects of the pandemic by increasing emotional closeness and providing dependability.
Tag: Family
Did COVID Strengthen Family Communication?
COVID had a mixed impact on family communication. Excessive time together was hard, but families benefited more from a greater sense of family connection.
The Power of Home-Centered Gospel Learning
When most people think of worship, it’s something happening in a chapel or church building. A deeper appreciation of worship that can also happen at home has been transformative for many families
It’s Time to Rethink Boundaries
All the boundary talk in America today can clearly do some good. Are there some unintended effects it also might be having on family relationships?
It Doesn’t Take Life-Changing Drama to Find Humility
The world’s getting angrier and colder. We were struck by how diverse families cultivate humility through religious practices.
Reducing the Risk of Cognitive Impairment in Aging Adults
What else can we do to help prevent cognitive decline in loved ones vulnerable to dementia? Research confirms the oversized impact of continued sociality—from card games to conversations.
Catching a Vision of the Doctrine of the Family
Are Latter-day Saints too focused on teachings about the family? Or are prophets emphasizing exactly what God knows will lead to our greatest happiness?
Losing and Finding Myself in Motherhood
As a young mother, I was a conflicted woman—torn apart by two dreams: “Where did the old me go?” This is how my struggle with children miraculously changed into joy and love unimagined.
One Overlooked Reason Sexual Abuse Continues
Sexual abuse kept happening to me because it’s incredibly hard to notice the signs.
New Study Shows Family & Church Key to Economic Mobility
A recent study sought to examine the factors that corresponded to economic mobility, which they define as the likelihood that a child born in one economic class will change during their lifetime. The two largest effects might be...
Don’t Call it Abortion
Especially when reality is deeply uncomfortable, a word like this has a way of sanitizing and obscuring the full and brutal picture of what’s actually taking place.
Forgiving Grandpa
I had good reasons for being angry with my grandfather. But that emotional burden I carried reflected my own misunderstanding of the nature of my other, even grander Father.
