Creating Your Forever

The time has come for my family relations class to come to an end! I am so grateful for the opportunity I had to take this class with Brother Williams. I learned so much about how I want my future family to be. For today's blog, I wanted to recap some of my past blog posts and list the top 5 things that I've learned. 1- There is strength and power that comes from building a family with a righteous mother and father that are married and bringing children into the world. The world has a very different view of what the family should look like. Today we see a dramatic increase in couples that cohabitate. There is a belief that we must “test run” marriage before getting married but research has found that this does not make your chances of staying together any better. We see an increase of children being born out of wedlock and an increase in divorces. I know that divorce isn’t the answer! I also know that children are so important to our Heavenly Father and to our own eternal h...

I read an amazing article that was written by “The Children’s Bureau” that was titled “A Fathers impact of Child Development.” It discussed the impact that a father has on a child’s life by focusing on 3 points: facts about a father's engagement, father absence, and tips for dads. Today in my blog I wanted to talk a bit about 5 things that stood out to me as I read the article. Infants can be equally as attached to the father as they are the mother. The first thing that caught my attention is that the article said that fathers and infants can be equally as attached as mothers and infants. This was interesting to me because I feel like there is an idea that a mother and her baby have a connection that is hard to recreate with the father but when both parents are involved with the child, infants are attached to both parents from the beginning of life. Father involvement using authoritative parenting (loving and with clear boundaries and expectations) leads to better emotion...