How does family home evening strengthen family?
Olivia asked:
So I have to write a talk by this sunday about how family home evening strengthens family. My family doesn’t have family home evening often so I don’t know what to write. Please help. I know that Family home evening is a special time set aside each week that brings family members together and strengthens their love for each other, helps them draw closer to Heavenly Father, and encourages them to live righteously, but I can’t turn that into a talk. Please help fast!
Katherine
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So I have to write a talk by this sunday about how family home evening strengthens family. My family doesn’t have family home evening often so I don’t know what to write. Please help. I know that Family home evening is a special time set aside each week that brings family members together and strengthens their love for each other, helps them draw closer to Heavenly Father, and encourages them to live righteously, but I can’t turn that into a talk. Please help fast!
Katherine
April 27th, 2011 at 10:31 am
Cooper
I CANT STAND MY PARENTS
April 27th, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Cooper
If you don’t do it often then why have you been asked to do a talk on it? Can’t you speak on another topic or ask someone with more experience to talk about it?
If you must talk about it how about using Deuteronomy 6? Lots of good advice there.
April 30th, 2011 at 9:43 am
Ashley
A great place to start then would be with the truth and not what helps for other people. If i were you, i’d write something like this…
I am supposed to talk about how famlily home evenings strengthen the family, but we don’t do this in my family. I would imagine it could be about time to share or simply time to be together and bond, but in the end all i can do is talk about what others might say. As a child of a family that does not sit around together i can say i feel we lack ______ (you fill in the blanks).
Actually many families who do perform family evenings don’t do so on just one night a week, nor do they often include religion into that time. How best to turn your child off from family night, make it a night of learning or religion. As a mother and a friend of other families, i’ve seen that facto happen over and over again.
Talk about what you truly know and don’t just guess and don’t just take other people’s answers as your own. Write and talk about what happens in your home and what experiences come from it. Feeling distant with parents, not feeling open lines of communication, not feeling they even understand you. that’s what happens in most homes that do not include family evenings and that’s what you should truly talk about. maybe your family will hear it and start taking more time out for you as well and trust me… you’d enjoy it in the long run.
May 1st, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Hayden
gotta give a sacrament talk huh? that ***** i’m sorry lol. try starting with the new era or even the friend it’s got lots of stories about family home evening that’ll take up time reading plus people love stories a lot more than someone who just stands up there and talks about a definition forever. good luck hun!
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:53 am
Anthony
Well, it depends if your the Mother , or daughter in your case, on how you should pursue this. I think if your the Mother, of course just plan it, but you really have to put in some thought, that would make the family enjoy it. it just can’t be all lecture. You have to think of ways to get them excited and yet informed. If your the daughter I suggest talking to your parents about it, starting by the one your closes too and again, put thought in to what everyone would enjoy doing. I think you have to have a strong relationship within family in order to reach that love and respect from one another.
May 6th, 2011 at 8:44 am
Lillian
bible texts help.. but if you are going to talk about it, tell them what you ‘imagine’ or ‘wish’ family gatherings would be like,, be specific,, and what i used to do, is ask if i could type it so that i can double space, and increase the size of the lettering. beleive me,, im in the tenth grade,, i get away with it all the time. and another tip: when you bond with family, it makes all your problems from the world disappear, and wheather its watching a movie or even playing a board game together, it is better than being anywhere else because you know that you are with the people who love you most. And because you can trust them, and you feel security, and know that if something happened to them tomarrow, at least you had greeat memories together.
how is that? if you have any more questions,, i can help,, just email me at