Publisher's Synopsis
President Russell M. Nelson has encouraged the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to take more responsibility for the family's gospel study. He said that it is time for a Home-Centered Church with gospel learning and teaching centered in the home supported by the programs administered at Church.
This book is a tool to help you MAKE TIME to teach your children what you have taken a lifetime to learn yourself. Now is the time to teach your children those things that will protect them in life and keep them spiritually, financially, physically, mentally self-reliant. MAKE TIME for them now, so that if they get lost along life's path, they will have loving memories and traditions that will help guide them through the storms of life.
You've survived the dating, enjoyed the romance, made the babies, changed the diapers, and lost your mind, maybe more than once. Now the world is competing for your family's time; work, school, friends, teams, clubs, television, social media, video games, and idleness all want a piece of your time. These distractions can bring contention and anger into any family.
This book contains a simple formula that you can adapt to your skills, your interests, and your stage in life. The book is designed to help you develop patterns that will help you and your family better manage the most precious time you have, the time together. If you want family unity and peace in a world of distractions and anger, this book is for you. It's time to build a Home-Centered Life.
With this planning guide for families, you can organize Family Home Evening, Family Council, Family Goals, and important family events and dates into one annual and monthly calendar system. Purchasing this book also gives you access to the Home-Centered Life website which provides exciting games, recipes, and teaching ideas for your family.
The book includes ideas for organizing Sunday to make it restful and productive, ideas for making Family Home Evening meaningful and fun, quick recipes for making treats together with your children and a goal setting system that will help you to have SUCCESS in your home however you define that success.
How do you define a SUCCESS IN THE HOME? How do other members of your family define SUCCESS? Council together, plan together and work together to develop the kind of family that you all want to have. MAKE TIME to have fun with your family, and MAKE TIME to teach them the lessons that you have learned over a lifetime. Use this book to write down goals for your family, and then implement monthly and weekly plans to help build the kind of family you want to have. Success in the home is no different than success in any other part of your life. It takes team building, goal setting, and work.
