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3 Simple Ways to Become a Happier Family

300 Questions LDS Couple Should Ask for a More Vibrant Marriage

Have a more vibrant, unified marriage with the help of this handy guide. With over 300 questions on topics ranging from intimacy to finances, this book provides a starting point for couples to sit down and talk about what's really important.

43 Ways To Make A Good Marriage Great

A Father's Heartbeat: 7 Virtues of Successful Fathers

Day by day, moment to moment, a good father can change the world for his children and generations to come. Find out exactly how in this engaging book for hands-on dads everywhere. Through scholarly research and real-world examples, you'll learn how seemingly ordinary daily acts have the power to change a father into someone extraordinary in the eyes of his children.

An Eight-Cow Woman Deserves An Eight-Cow Man

And They Were Not Ashamed

Finally! a book about physical intimacy and marital ONEness that is comprehensive, in-depth and frank, yet respectfully reverent-written to address the unique perspective and concerns of women, shining a light into the mysteries of the female heart, mind and soul.

Baby's First 100 Days

Each newborn is a little bundle of mystery. Baby's First 100 Days sheds light on your baby's behavior by explaining how a baby behaves and why, offering simple and authoritative advice on everything from burping to breastfeeding, recognizing signs of fatigue, dealing with tears, establishing a sleeping pattern and, most important, looking after yourself and enjoying time with your little one.

Book of Mormon Stories

Contains colorfully illustrated stories from the Book of Mormon, written on a basic reading level.

Choose the Right: FHE Book with CD

Crazy days mean no time to plan family nights. With Choose the Right, all of your Family Home Evening lessons are done for a whole year, complete with activities, games, scriptures, songs, challenges, and a CD-Rom with printable handouts!

Choosing Motherhood: Stories of Successful Women Who Put Family First

Motherhood or a career? Which one truly matters? Both are important in their own way, but in Choosing Motherhood learn how these bright, young LDS women from the Yale community, while their peers were putting off motherhood or forgetting it entirely, decided to become mothers and make an eternal difference in the lives of their children and their communities.

Christlike Parenting

By improving the way we, as parents, interact with our children, we can improve their behavior. Thus the importance of "being of good cheer"; of what we say and how we say it; of creating a safe, noncoercive environment in the home where children are taught not only good behavior but also good values.

Comfort My Soul In Christ - Overcoming Addictive Behavior

Confessions of a Cereal Mother: True Stories to Let Every Mother Know She's Not Alone in the Craziness

Feeling underappreciated, Mom? Mothers everywhere will relate to this author's attempt to stay sane while trying to raise righteous, successful children. In Confessions of a Cereal Mother, popular author Rachel McClellan provides an insightful and sometimes hilarious view of a mother's journey as she tackles everyday situations such as getting her children ready for school or going on vacation.

Dad Rules: A Simple Manual for a Complex Job

We all know kids don't come with a manual and so far there's no app for fatherhood, but that doesn't mean you should parent empty-handed. Whether you're a dad to tots or teens, these simple but effective rules are here to help.

Dad's Night: Fantastic Family Nights in Five Minutes

Even the busiest father still wants to be the spiritual leader in his home. And now he can! Written specifically for dads, this handy helper includes everything he needs to plan and pull off a great family night in less time than it takes to drive home from work. Forget the stress of preparing and focus on what's really important----a weekly tradition that will bring blessings for years to come.

Dad’S Parenting Playbook

Whether you are an expectant father or already have a few MVPs, this funny, highly readable parenting guide is the playbook for becoming a better dad. Keeping it simple, Dad's Parenting Playbook: The S-M-I-L-E-S Approach to Raising Resilient Kids provides the perfect game plan for men who want to be part of a winning team.

Divorceless Marriage

Doctrine and Covenants Stories

Contains colorfully illustrated stories from the Doctrine and Covenants, written on a basic reading level.

Dreaming In The Light Of His Love

Enriching Your Marriage

With its straightforward, practical wisdom, Enriching Your Marriage will spark a flame in lovers of all ages to help strengthen their marriage, no matter how rocky or blissful. With over 30 years of marriage and family teaching and counseling experience, Dr. Clark Swain has positively influenced many lives - make yours one of them as this book becomes a turning point for your marriage and your life.

Family Home Evening for Newlyweds

You'll love these Family Home Evening lessons: Gospel Draw The Sky's the Limit Need to Succeed Life Inventory Marriage Myths Into the Future Spouse Olympics Name Game The Signal of Love Calendar Cration This is My Life Highway to Heaven Money Matters And Much Much More!!

Family Home Evening Resource Book

This book is a resource for planning family home evenings. It contains 37 lessons and the following other sections: “Making Home Evenings Successful,” “Lesson Ideas,” “Building a Strong Family,” and “Family Activities.”

From Pampered to Productive: Raising Children Who Know How to Work

From television to iphones and automatic dishwashers, we've got it all---except each other. But there's a simple solution. Turn forgotten to-dos into family fun with Debbie Bowen's ten proven formulas for success. With new skills, added closeness, and a real sense of accomplishment, your whole family will soon cherish chore time. Raising responsible, hard-working kids has never been so rewarding!

Great Games

Whether you're planning a party, gathered as a family, confined by a rainy day or organizing a team-building exercise, Great Games! is the perfect source for exciting, free games for every age and play situation.

How to Date Your Spouse

Written for men and women, How to Date Your Spouse offers lighthearted humor along with 55 great date ideas, tips and examples to reignite the spark in your relationship. Whether it's time, money, or no babysitter that keeps you from dating, you'll find the solutions you're looking for. This clever approach to spousal dating offers a fresh spin on being married in the 21st century.

How to Have Peace When You're Falling to Pieces

"How can I have inner peace as a mother when I feel so stressed and scattered?" For mothers who feel they are constantly juggling multiple demands, How to Have Peace When You're Falling to Pieces is packed with uplifting stories, poems, quotes, and scriptures that instill fresh perspective on the work of a mother.

I Am a Child of God: A Year of Family Night Lessons

Make Mondays the best night of the week! With a full year of easy family nights that correlate directly with the 2013 Primary theme, this book is the perfect solution for busy families everywhere. For each week you'll find a complete lesson written for you, plus songs, scriptures, ideas for treats, and activity options for younger and older children.

Inside Out Parenting

Parenting expert and psychotherapist Anson L. Service reveals genius strategies, easy steps, and proven tools that any parent (even you) can implement immediately to create dramatic, smart, permanent changes in your family today.

Life Lessons from Mothers of Faith (hardcover)

We all have stories to tell. And some of our most lifechanging experiences happen with our mothers, often during everyday moments. Life Lessons From Mothers of Faith will delight you with touching true stories that highlight the almost magical way faithful mothers teach powerful lessons.

Marriage Fitness

Traditional marriage counseling and most relaionship books offer problem solving strategies and communication skills. But tackling marriage problems stress-out a relationship and make a bad marriage worse. And did you ever try to communicate when you're angry? That doesn't work either. Marriage fitness is an innovative step-by-step relationship-changing system

Marriage is Ordained of God but Who Came up With Dating?

Fall in love while staying true to your values! Geared for ages 14 to 30, this humorous guide teaches you how to navigate the various stages of dating, including how to flirt appropriately, the do's and don'ts of hanging out, and how to break up without breaking a heart. Learn the ins and outs of dating and successfully find the one for you!

Men Exposed!

A book guaranteed to solve all your problems with guys...even the really dopey ones.

Mom Knows Best: Classic Stories Every Mom Will Love

Beloved and bestselling author Joan Wester Anderson takes you past preschool and on through college in these hilarious and witty observations on mothering at all ages. And while Joan's mothering instincts may not be the most conventional, they sure are entertaining. Encouraging and uplifting, this book reassures mothers everywhere that things really will be okay---even if there is peanut butter on the curtains.

Mom Rules: Because Even Super Heroes Need Help Sometimes

While it is universally understood that being a mother takes superhuman patience, strength, and fortitude, even these everyday superheroes need a helping hand every once in a while. Mom Rules is a quick go-to guide of essential rules to help mothers know what to expect, what to say, and what to do in those difficult moments when they are at their wits end.

Mother's Daze

The perfect Mother's Day book is finally here! This witty take on what it means to be a mother will leave you with aching sides and a full heart. From the exciting and awkward changes of pregnancy to the quirky ups and downs of raising teenagers, Mother's Daze is full of humorous stories and everyday realities that mothers of all ages will relate to.

Motherhood Matters

Being an outstanding mother doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age where women are expected to work full-time, raise a family, be a taxi driver for the children, and be the perfect wife and mother, Mom Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about mothering. Written with clarity, concision, and wit, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for mothering wisely.

My Prodigal Story

In a message that speaks to each of us, Kirk outlines the practices and principles that will more surely lead back to the welcoming arms of our Father...for, aren't we all prodigals, after all?

New Testament Stories

Contains colorfully illustrated stories from the New Testament, written on a basic reading level.

Old Testament Stories

Contains colorfully illustrated stories from the Old Testament, written on a basic reading level.

Once Upon a Baby : A Tale of Adoption

The book is geared towards children ages 2-8 as a way to explain and bring comfort while providing answers to the life-long questions of who they are, why they’re here and where they’re going. The sense of always being loved as part of the adoptive family is conveyed throughout the story as the child is born a baby, sealed to his family in the temple and goes on to live with them throughout eternity.

Our Search for Happiness

Parent Fix

Parenting With Love - Spanish

Parenting with Spiritual Power

"I wish children came with an instruction manual!" How many times have we heard this lament? Julie Nelson examines the lives of mothers and fathers in the scriptures (the best instruction manual) and the parenting principles we can learn from them. Discover powerful parenting examples and suggestions for personal application in this essential book.

Refuge and Reality : Blessings of the Temple

As we seek to know our real selves and to see the real beauty in the world and people around us, this inspirational volume will direct our understanding toward the eternal answers found in the temple. The hope and strength we need are there: Our mortal burdens are made light, empty longing is filled, and when we leave that holy place, we can take with us the "real world" comfort and power of heaven.

Simply Sane: Living Outside the Fast Lane

In today s competitive world, we often push to do our best at everything, only to discover that we have to outsmart, outpace, and outdo others in order to succeed. As victims of this be-all, do-all mentality, we keep pushing, which often leads to more frustration, unhappiness, and stress. Debbie Bowen held this same view that she needed to do everything for everyone perfectly. That all changed when she discovered that she simply could not do it she couldn t save all the starfish on the beach. Changing her perspective took some time, but she gradually learned to slow down, let go, and go without and that has made all the difference.

So, What Can Kids Do In The Summertime

Sorry, The Stork Takes No Returns

Successful Marriages And Families

The overall objective for Successful Marriages and Families remains the same as it was for the earlier volumes:

Strengthen readers' testimony in the principles of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ as they relate to family life.

Increase readers' confidence in their abilities to live and implement proclamation principles.

Help readers share and defend proclamation principles more effectively in their various spheres of influence.

Table Talk: Questions and Quotes to Start Hundreds of Great Family Discussions on Patriotism, Values, Fun, and Faith

Nothing has a greater or more lasting impact on children than their parents, yet our society tries to weaken that influence. Talking and teaching are two things best done at home. Using hundreds of fun questions and quotes from this book, watch as your family comes together to discuss the most important issues of life---patriotism, values, fun, faith, and more.

Talking Baby

The Activity Book

This book provides ideas and suggestions for family, church, and community activities.

The Finance of Romance: Investing in Your Relationship Portfolio

Creating a strong, romantic and committed relationship is very much like investing in your financial future. Using familiar investment rules, this book walks couples through the requirements for ensuring relationship security in their lives. Don't cross your fingers. Remove uncertainty from your relationship with an analytical approach to your romantic future. If your significant other only reads one relationship book, make it The Finance of Romance.

The Gift of Giving Life: Rediscovering the Divine Nature of Pregnancy and Birth

The Gift of Giving Life: Rediscovering the Divine Nature of Pregnancy and Birth offers something that no other book has before–a spiritual look at pregnancy, birth and mothering by and for LDS women and other women of faith. With inspiring birth stories and essays from dozens of real LDS women, scriptures, words of the prophets and other spiritual texts related to pregnancy and birth, The Gift of Giving Life if the essential pregnancy companion for every LDS woman.

The Life is Too Short Collection

The Life is Too Short Collection is just what you need. Written by Connie Sokol – mother of seven, author, speaker, and amazing matching sock finder – these humorous self-development columns give you the right amount of fun and functional.

Originally written for a major newspaper and magazines, enjoy all three Life is Too Short books in this convenient one-book collection: Life is Too Short for One Hair Color, Life is Too Short for Sensible Shoes, and Life is Too Short for Linoleum.

The Power of Positive Parenting

It is more a manual than it is a book; hence, it must be read, then reread, then read some more. Wide margins have been provided for note taking. Use it as a tool with which to build your family.

There's No Place Like Home... Evening! An FHE Planning Guide for Young Single Adults

You've been called to be in charge of FHE in your Young Single Adult ward or branch. What do you do now?

To Have And To Hold

Understanding Women

Waterfall Memories: A Parable of Motherhood

Motherhood grabs you in the first moment... And it is an awe-inspiring feeling as the dawning realization hits. You are to be a mother. Merrilee Browne Boyack brings you a heartwarming parable of motherhood that will bring to mind all the wonderful memories you have or can expect from being a mother. A wonderful gift for mothers everywhere.