Letters

19 01, 2025

Your Child’s Private World

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2025-01-15T14:59:54-07:00January 19th, 2025|Letters, Parenting, Personal|

One of the greatest parenting joys is when your child lets you into their private world. What is the private world? Generally speaking, it is a special place where we all hold deeper thoughts, treasured memories, and feel the most vulnerable. It is the essence of who we are. The private world is what we share with our spouse and only our most trusted and closest friends. As our children grow and develop their sense [...]

12 01, 2025

Being God’s Love to Your Child

By Lis and Dave Marr|2025-01-15T14:52:18-07:00January 12th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

To your child, God looks and acts like you. They will come to understand God’s love based on how they have experienced your love. Their self-worth will be based on that understanding - a love that finds the right balance of words and actions to encourage, coax, and mold appropriate behavior and effort. Their life is a divine journey of discovery guided by you. And for those parents who understand the depth of this blessing, [...]

6 01, 2025

2025 Top Ten Parenting Tips

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2025-01-09T13:57:06-07:00January 6th, 2025|Letters, Parenting|

As we begin each new year, we are excited to share our top ten parenting tips. This list highlights the best practices and addresses some trends we have observed over the past year. Some of these tips may be familiar to you, while others might be new. Regardless, we hope this list serves as thoughtful encouragement to you as you kick off 2025! 10) Have fun and enjoy your kids – It's easy to get wrapped [...]

26 12, 2024

Proactive Parenting with OneFamily

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2025-01-09T13:57:24-07:00December 26th, 2024|Letters, Marriage, Parenting|

This past spring, OneFamily hosted an international parenting conference that reached nearly 300 parents from around the world. This is another example of the many resources – online classes, seminars, daily encouraging quotes, Tuesday Letters of advice, and more - OneFamily offers families as they seek to improve their marriages and parenting strategies. Claire and Hunter are a wonderful example of parents who take advantage of everything OneFamily has to offer: We are so thankful [...]

20 12, 2024

Fruits of the Year

By Lis and Dave Marr|2025-01-09T13:57:36-07:00December 20th, 2024|Family Culture, Letters, Personal|

Clearly you are more mature today than you were 5 years ago. And to be sure, you’re likely to be more mature 5 years from now than you are today. In what way? Your kids will lead you to the answer. Setting goals for the year is definitely a worthwhile endeavor, though it is commonplace to lose energy and focus on those objectives as the clean slate of the coming year gets filled with life. [...]

16 12, 2024

Unexpected Blessing

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2025-01-09T13:57:49-07:00December 16th, 2024|Letters, Parenting, Personal|

A successful parenting journey requires consistency, patience, and resolve. Yet the journey is often filled with frustration, anxiety, and, at times, hopelessness even when we are trying to do our best. Thankfully, there are those moments that can unexpectedly encourage and sustain us in the process! Recently, we were reminded of a heartwarming story shared by friends and OneFamily parents. This story beautifully illustrates one of those unexpected moments when parents receive affirmation that their [...]

9 12, 2024

The Parenting Journey

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2025-01-09T13:58:19-07:00December 9th, 2024|Family Culture, Letters, Personal|

The mission of OneFamily is to equip, encourage and sustain you throughout your marriage and parenting journey. For nearly 10 years, we have committed ourselves to serving families, one family at a time, with classes, seminars, events, one-on-one coaching/mentoring, and online with our daily quotes and Tuesday Letters of encouragement. This means you have ongoing access to OneFamily long after you’ve first participated in one of our programs. This year, we worked directly with 2,400 [...]

2 12, 2024

OneFamily – One Million Families Reached in 2024!

By Rich Howard|2024-12-02T17:12:03-07:00December 2nd, 2024|Family Culture, Letters|

1,009,951 Families Reached! Our goal for 2024 is to reach one million families. By the end of the year, we are projected to exceed that goal by nearly ten thousand families! This is a significant milestone for OneFamily, made possible by the incredible support and encouragement from families like yours, who inspire others to attend classes, events, and share through social media. At the core of OneFamily's mission is creating a transformative impact on families. [...]

25 11, 2024

A Season for Family Identity, Traditions & Gratitude

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2024-11-25T15:54:48-07:00November 25th, 2024|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting, Relationship|

Does your family embody an attitude of gratitude? When shaping your family identity, do you actively cultivate and teach the importance of gratitude? One of the many reasons we cherish the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, is that it offers a fantastic opportunity to strengthen our family identity through traditions that encourage our family to internalize the virtue of gratitude. Family Identity with Family Traditions Family identity is an anchor for you and your [...]

18 11, 2024

CouchTime & Family Conversation Cards 2024

By Rich Howard|2024-11-18T11:07:50-07:00November 18th, 2024|Marriage, Personal, Relationship|

New! CouchTime Conversations Cards! As we head into the holiday season, we are excited to share that we have added CouchTime Conversation Cards to our conversation card line up! This is a great way to enhance your CouchTime and strengthen your marriage relationship. If you are not familiar with CouchTime or Time of Non-conflict, you can learn more by visiting our resource page. Our Family Conversation Cards are also available in English and Spanish! When [...]