Category Archives: Teens

Family Mealtime Opportunities and Election 2012

What is it about good food that often eases tensions, encourages conversation or otherwise adds pleasantness to life?  On road trips with teen agers we discovered we eliminated bickering by stop......

[The following letter was sent by Grandpa Russon in 2007 to local public school administrators in response to the question of setting up coffee bars in public schools.] Recently in the news ther......

Everyone Has a Name.

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. We have the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Last fall I began reading the Boo......

Using the Principles in the Proclamation of the Family as Guide

In the fall of 1995, President Gordon B. Hinckley introduced “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” Before presenting  it he explained: “The world we are in is a world of turmoil, of shiftin......

Hungry kids. Picky eaters.

Among my grandchildren there are varieties of eaters.  Some eat something of every part of a meal.  Others have very few items on their list of things they eat.  Some don’t even like peanu......