Late Night Family Thoughts

Hello everyone! This is a bit of a bittersweet blog post. It will also be my last time making a post on here (at least for now). It's been an awesome ride being able to talk to you all and make these posts. And through my own research I've been able to confirm for myself how families are so important.  It is very sad how in today's society, families aren't seen as prominent or as important as before. Prophets throughout all of time, have warned us about this the danger of this. In the family proclamation, it reads, "Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets." We see this prophecy unfolding in our day. We live in a world where broken families have been somewhat normalized. Divorce runs rampant. Children are even discouraged. When people have a dispute or disagreement, one of the first thoughts now, is that they made a mistake. Maybe I marrie

 Hello everyone! Hope everything is going good with you all. It's been a pretty good week here with me. As someone who is not yet married, and doesn't have a family, I try to prepare myself as best I can for when that time does eventually come. Because when it does, I want to be ready to raise children of my own effectively. I've studied a lot of different good parenting techniques that will help when eventually raising children.  There is a common misconception that being strict is important in raising children. This isn't necessarily true and can even mislead parents into raising children in a way that is not healthy. What's far more important than strictness, is being consistent, confident, and constantly showing warmth. It is very important to remain consistent in our behavior. If we tell our kids not to do something, and then we do that same thing multiple times, our children are more likely to break that rule because the parent is not being consistent in their