Growing up, my family used to begin family home evening with a song, proceed to fight about our schedules for the upcoming week for 20 minutes, and then close with a prayer. We never quite caught the vision of the weekly night that LDS Church leaders encourage families to spend together.
Now as a mother, I find myself in charge of corralling the troops for our weekly night together, and I have learned a lot along the way about what family home evening should and shouldn’t be.