Here are some of our favorite Christmas gift ideas for kids that will hopefully help check some of the names off your gift-giving list.
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If “I’m booorred” is an all-too-familiar phrase around your household these days, check out this fun summer schedule.
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In a time when it’s impossible prevent children from ever seeing pornography, parents should instead work to build pornography resistance in their children.
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Let a little bit of the Primary spirit into your home each week as you help you little ones learn to love Primary.
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“As I raise my child with disabilities, I have been blessed by other mothers, fathers, and their children who know what it looks like to metaphorically carry loved ones to the Savior.”
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The new broadcast will feature activities, music, and messages from the Primary General Presidency.
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It’s hard to get kids to be reverent during sacrament meeting. Here are 11 great ways to entertain your kids while teaching them gospel principles at the same time.
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Sarah Jane Wright believes childhood should be a more whimsical place—so she creates art for kids that captures the wonder of laughter, friendship, and faith.
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As the weather gets colder and Christmas gets closer, settle in with one of these fantastic Christmas books with your family.
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Saturday's broadcast for Primary children featured a song that might be more familiar to other Christian faiths.
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The training allowed me to understand the topic of abuse with a gospel lens, and I was able to apply it when an incident occurred in Primary.
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“How do you teach the concept of consent to your children? That ‘no’ means ‘no,’ that our bodies are sacred and private, and that a child’s comfort and discomfort are important?”
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A new statement from the Church outlines its feelings on abuse and how a recent Associated Press story got it wrong.
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Fill your child’s room with art that will instill positive messages and remind them of the Savior’s love for them.
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To celebrate Canada’s Church membership milestone, a virtual choir of 183 diverse young voices from across the country created a special new music video.
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Eleven-year-old Sophie Moonshower is passionate about the theater. She and her mother, Sharon, often attend local theater productions, and Sophie’s enthusiasm for live performance, song, and dance often warms the hearts of those in attendance.
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Most of the time, stories from the scriptures bring me peace and strength. But every now and then, I grapple with them and what they mean in my life.
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My 10-year-old pitches a different excuse every week to convince us it’s impossible for him to go to church. And while I want him to be there, the resistance is draining.
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Julie and her husband Dave once thought they would never be able to have children because of fertility issues.
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I was amazed at the efforts to truly tailor this event to children. Here are a few things that impressed me as a mother about the most recent Friend to Friend.
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Several Primary-aged children held cameras, makeup brushes, and producers' clipboards behind the scenes of the worldwide event.
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The Primary general presidency worked with language specialists and native-speaking children to record their parts of the event in Spanish and Portuguese.
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With the push for at-home gospel learning, more and more gospel resources are being released for our little ones.
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Primary children in New Zealand wrote messages expressing love for people in Tonga affected by the volcanic eruption.
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Deanna Lambson has found her calling in life: teaching families how to keep their children safe from pornography, cyberbullying, and other online threats.
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Presidents Bonnie H. Cordon and Camille N. Johnson each posted heartfelt thoughts to social media this week about the children in their lives.
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One researcher has discovered that baby books are rich in history, but many parents see them as a source of stress. Here are some high- and low-tech solutions to help with the job.
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In this week's episode of This is the Gospel, after Julie's 14-month-old son Jonah passes away in a tragic choking accident, she is plagued with insomnia and nightmares. Following a prompting, she begins to share her feelings on a public blog, but little does she know that that blog will connect her to two women who will change her life in unexpected ways.
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Conductor Ben Watson of the Rexburg Children’s Choir didn’t realize he was on a strict timeline when he reached out to David Archuleta about collaborating on a music video earlier this year. As it turns out, Archuleta and the children’s choir finished recording their music just one week before the COVID-19 shutdown. The group then had to film the video from separate locations—Archuleta in Nashville and the choir in eastern Idaho. Despite these challenges, the final music video, “From a Distance,” is a sweet reminder that as the song says, “God is always watching.”
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Find out what happened to each of the Smith children and where the surviving ones ended up in their adult years.
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The Salt Lake Temple may be closed for renovation, but children now have a new way to explore temples when visiting downtown Salt Lake City.
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Thanks to thirdhour.com for making us aware of this video.
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Early one morning, I woke up and quickly asked my wife, “What day is it?”
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A decade ago, women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Brampton, Hamilton and Kitchener, Ontario, decided to help women in custody. Since then, the women from the Church have made recordings of incarcerated women reading to their children. Through this experience, the volunteers from the Church have grown to love the women whose voices they record each week.
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The following story originally ran on LDS Living in September 2012.
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The Amazon River: the world's strongest river and the largest in the sheer amount of water that flows along its banks and eventually empties out into the ocean.
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As Latter-day Saints, families are a huge part of our doctrine and our membership. And at one time or another, we've probably had the responsibility of watching a toddler during sacrament meeting and experienced all the unique challenges and joys that provides.
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The following article originally ran on LDS Living in September 2014.
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When Leslie entered the temple, she expected an answer.
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As a youth speaker stood and began her very first sacrament meeting talk, I realized she sounded just like a typical adult speaker—and that wasn’t a good thing.
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“My most painful experiences so far in mortality are centered around the struggle to grow my family.”
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Let's make this clear: all callings are equally important. From Nursery leader to bishop to Relief Society president and everything in between, each calling is vitally important to building up our fellow brothers and sisters in the gospel.
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Most of the stepmothers I know didn't grow up thinking, "Hey, someday I'm going to be a stepmom. I can't wait." Nevertheless, I grew up to be the stepmother to three and my sister—brave sister that she is—grew up to marry a man who is the widowered father of six. And the reality is, my sister and I both have friends who grew up to be stepmothers as well. If you are a stepmother or know someone who is, here are a few suggestions for making the most of blended family life.
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For Tarrin Philpott, years of diagnosed “unexplained infertility” led her and her husband, Tyrell, to adoption. And it was a shift in strategy and heart.
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The veil between us and the spirit world can often grow thin, allowing us to feel the love and influence of eternal family. Recently, Anne Hinton Pratt wrote a moving article for Meridian Magazine detailing the sacred experiences many Latter-day Saints have experienced feeling the presence of angels and family yet to be born. Among them was an account from Matt Hill, who felt the presence of his eternal family while in the temple being sealed to his wife.
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“Rather than focusing on what they don’t do, instead focus on what they are doing and what they can do and their potential.”
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From incredible trick shots to singing Disney songs, Latter-day Saint children have ruled the internet with their adorable home videos. Whether they are funny, sweet, or inspiring, these videos have garnered millions of views and impressed celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey, Jimmy Kimmel, and more.
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CNN, Time, Fox, MSN, POPSUGAR, Daily Mail. One Latter-day Saint toddler has been capturing headlines across the globe.
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Latter-day Saints Heather Fujikawa and Heidi Andrews are twins with a mother who was always pointing out beauty in the rare and obscure details most people seldom noticed.
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Ever since they were little girls, Latter-day Saint twin sisters Brittany and Briana Deane dreamed of marrying twin brothers. Now, their childhood wish is coming true.
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When Kyra announced her pregnancy on Facebook, she also had to announced her husband’s unexpected death. But peace would come.
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