Letters

30 08, 2023

Learning The Ways Of Money – Part 2

By Lis and Dave Marr|2023-09-05T07:19:12-06:00August 30th, 2023|Finances, Letters|

A Three-Part Series to Help Your Child Learn The Ways of Money Teaching your kids about money – Pre-adolescent thoughts Gaining responsibility about money – Adolescent thoughts Paying for college and being an adult – College and beyond _________________________ Adolescence Though your children may not be in this age category yet, there are benefits to looking down the road to not only contemplate this topic, but also get a feel for how all topics layer [...]

25 08, 2023

Learning The Ways Of Money – Part 1

By Lis and Dave Marr|2023-08-25T13:26:27-06:00August 25th, 2023|Finances, Letters, Parenting|

A Three-Part Series to Help Your Child Learn The Ways of Money Teaching your kids about money – Pre-adolescent thoughts Gaining responsibility about money – Adolescent thoughts Paying for college and being an adult – College and beyond _________________________ Pre-Adolescence What is money to a child? If not told, not trained, and not experienced over an early lifetime, a person might walk the road to ruin with lack of understanding about money and its successful [...]

18 08, 2023

Does Your Child Choose Friends Wisely?

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2023-08-18T17:05:18-06:00August 18th, 2023|Letters, Parenting, Uncategorized|

As a new school year begins, there are seemingly countless items to do to prepare our kids for the year ahead. There are conversations that need to take place as well. Among the more important conversations, a meaningful discussion about friendships should be at the top of the list. Are you comfortable with your children’s current friends? Is your child choosing to be friends with others who are a good influence on them or not? [...]

12 08, 2023

Teaching Children How to Commit

By Lis and Dave Marr|2023-08-12T13:49:46-06:00August 12th, 2023|Letters, Parenting|

“I commit to you I will be at your game today.” “I commit to you that after I get home from work, I’ll play catch with you.” “Will you commit to me you’ll give it your best on this assignment?” “Will you commit to me, while I make dinner, you’ll go clean your room? “Will both of you commit to me and to each other, you’ll play this game nicely?” “Mom and Dad, I commit [...]

3 08, 2023

Back to School and Back on Track

By Rich Howard|2023-08-03T13:56:51-06:00August 3rd, 2023|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

Back to school has always been very similar to the start of a new year for our family. It marks the start of a new school year with renewed expectations and resolutions not only for our boys, but also for us as parents. For the kids, it’s a great time to get them refocused on their schedules, routines and revisit some lessons that were learned or challenges faced in the previous school year and over [...]

30 07, 2023

Self-Control and The Power of Delayed Gratification

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2023-07-30T05:37:40-06:00July 30th, 2023|Family Culture, Letters, Uncategorized|

What if you knew the greatest predictor of your children’s success, later in life, came down to one particular skill? A skill that, if well developed, could lead to better social skills, handling stress, and greater academic success? How about a skill that could lower levels of substance abuse, lower levels of obesity, and create more success in every area of life? Training and reinforcing the skill of Delaying Gratification leads to the development of [...]

22 07, 2023

The Powerful Idea in Real Life

By Lis and Dave Marr|2023-07-24T10:10:12-06:00July 22nd, 2023|Letters, Parenting|

Last week we talked about The Powerful Idea, how one idea can layer on positive benefits, year after year, impacting your family’s life and the trajectory of your children. Today we provide testimony to one such powerful idea for the Byars family. The Byars’ powerful idea was to choose to commit to their family by taking OneFamily courses, seminars, and mentoring over the last 13 years. March 2022 - “Rich and Shelly-Hope this finds you [...]

15 07, 2023

Transforming Families

By Shelly and Rich Howard|2023-07-15T14:06:22-06:00July 15th, 2023|Family Culture, Marriage, Parenting|

“We write to you with tears in our eyes, tears of joy, and delight with much gratitude in our hearts. We have three children. A 7-year-old boy, a 5-year-old girl, and a 1.5-year-old baby girl. We found out about One family as we were desperately looking for a different kind of help from what we have had in the past. Since then, we have been blessed through their online classes and personalized mentoring/coaching. Every time, [...]

14 07, 2023

The Powerful Idea

By Lis and Dave Marr|2023-07-15T13:57:35-06:00July 14th, 2023|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

The value of some ideas to parents is immediate and obvious – don’t let 3-year-olds play in the street unattended; knives and electrical outlets don’t mix; too much sugar in a diet creates dependency. These are common sense notions because the “Cause and Effect” are obvious. These types of health and safety issues are somewhat clear in the early years of parenting. However, in other areas of parenting it is less clear what will be [...]

10 07, 2023

Help OneFamily Impact Families!

By Rich Howard|2023-07-10T13:02:01-06:00July 10th, 2023|Family Culture, Marriage, Parenting|

62% of parents today say parenting is much harder than they expected 88% parents say parenting is tiring and stressful 77% of parents say their greatest worry is the mental health of their children and fear they will be bullied 52% of parents say they feel judged in the parenting by their spouse 77% of parents believe children are better when raised by both parents According to a recent Pew Research Center studies on Marriage [...]