Parenthood

Forever Giving and Receiving in the School of the Gods

Today we are timid about the science and art of parenting. I hope to help people not be afraid to take on that noblest of adventures and greatest of joys, to be a ‘small god’ to a little flock of clones and dollies. 

Children are constant invitations to come into the joy and love of Christ. 

Watching one’s self grow up again through posterity is the greatest pleasure life has to offer.

Books

Published:

• The Collapse & Return of Parental Authority: Highlights Commentary & Supporting Essays on the Work of Dr. Leonard Sax

Rough Drafts:

• Parenting with Love & Limits (Book PDF) (Abrev. Book)

Videos

• 38min Children Are an Inheritance from the Lord: Being a Parent Now and in Eternity 3min The Very Difficult Child: A Sanctifying Mindset & Personal Accountability
• 33min 10 Foster Parenting Myths 1hr Children: Why to Have Lots of Them and Not Wait Around About it 2hrs Staying Traditional in a World Gone Mad – Nate & Megan Richardson on The Mormon Renegade Podcast with David Sanders  (Encouraging family based culture, large families, resisting anti-family social pressure, sibling groups for socialization, homeschooling for Christian customized education, failure of public school’s curriculum and toxic behavior allowance, dating, parental discipline, traditional gender roles, seeking religious community, foster parenting, finding likeminded groups, exploring the higher law of plural marriage for family creation, etc.)

Articles

• 1 2 3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 by Thomas W. Phelan PhD – Book Highlights 09/14/2024
• Issues with the Marxist “EmPOWERment Trauma Informed” Model of Parenting 08/02/2024
• The Collapse of Parenting Book Highlights, Abbreviated Version 12/17/2023
• Brainstorming Faith Promoting Church Activities for Young Women 11/28/2023
• Conscience Essay by Joel Skousen – Highlights 11/01/2023
• Parenting Examples from the Bruce McConkie Family 11/01/2023
• Warmth & Love at Home 2.28.23 11/01/2023
• Poem “To Raise a child” by Nate Richardson 2.28.23 11/01/2023
• Thoughts on Why the New Youth Pamphlet and Related Changes in the Church – Changes Toward the “Higher & Holier Way” without Falling into “Anything Goes” Pitfalls, Emphasizing Parental Leadership – 4.23.23 04/24/2023
• Help For Parenting Children who are Depressed & Suicidal – Adjustments in Family Standards (8.7.22) 08/08/2022
• Dealing the that VERY Difficult Child: A Sanctifying Mindset Helps 01/18/2022
• Family Tribe Unity: Taking Back The Rituals: Some (Radical?) Old School Parenting Tips 10/29/2021
• Bedtime: Tips to Help with The Chronic Struggle, Looking Back to the Past 10/29/2021
• Learn from the Best Parents: Joseph Smith Sr.’s Daily Family Devotionals 10/29/2021
• Why Children (and Adults) Fall Away from The Church 01/23/2021
• What Should be the Legal Limits of Parental Discipline? 02/01/2020
• Parenthood: The Eternal Fountain of Glory 02/01/2020
• The Parent Child Relationship in the Hereafter 02/01/2020
• Losing Your Children and Eternal Procreative Power Upon Disobedience 02/01/2020
• Prophets Discourage Anger 02/01/2020
• Rules of Civility in the Honorable Home 02/01/2020
• The Revelatory Function of a Parent 02/01/2020
• Expect Great Things of Young People 01/31/2020
• The Effects of Family of Origin on an Individual’s Attachment Preferences 01/28/2020
• Example of Rules for Family with Young Children by Meg Richardson 01/27/2020
• Do They Grow Up Too Fast? Gospel Truths Dispel Dismay 01/27/2020
• The 25 Mistakes LDS Parents Make and how to Avoid Them by Randal A. Wright, PhD 01/27/2020
• 7 Mistakes LDS Parents Make by Mark Ogletree PhD, LDS Living Magazine 01/27/2020
• Crazy Things People (Always) Say When They Hear of a ‘Stay at Home’ Mom 01/27/2020
• Homemaking a ‘Real Job’: One Mother’s Response 01/27/2020
• 13 Discipline Principles by Jonathan Swinton, Therapist – LDS Living Magazine 01/27/2020
• Resolution of Teenage Delinquency through Independent Family Structures 12/24/2019
• The Family: A Proclamation to the World 1995 12/22/2019
• Baseline Rules for Righteous Parenting 11/30/2019
• Public Schools Exposing Kids to Improper & Godless Sex 11/30/2019
• Grow Where You Are Planted: Why to Stop Moving Everywhere 03/02/2019
• The Anti-Socialist: Applied Fields 03/02/2019
• The Way of The True Man 03/02/2019
• How Children Benefit From Having Many Siblings 02/16/2019
• Revoked Parenthood in the Hereafter If Abusive & Faithless 12/14/2018
• Developmental Outline Sketch for Raising Children 09/09/2018
• Strict Parenting 08/09/2018
• Gentle Parenting – Quotes of the Prophets 08/09/2018
• Family Council Meetings 07/23/2018
• Family Mission Plan Example 09/09/2018
• Q&A On Exalted Persons being served by their children, and The Eternal Ownership of a Parent to its Child 07/07/2018
• Invisible Mother (Building a Cathedral) by Nicole Johnson – Full Text Article 05/14/2018
• Therapist VS Father as Saviors of Mankind: A Peculiar Family Size Theory 05/05/2018
• Joel Skousen note on Parenting 03/15/2018
• Children: An Heritage (Inheritance) of (from) The Lord: What & Why is a Parent here & in Eternity 02/12/2018
• Snoop Dogg: Targeting Kids for Delinquency, another recent episode, Mock Shooting The President 02/01/2018
• Sex-Ed “Bean Up The Nose” Reaction 02/01/2018
• Parent 01/25/2018
• Fighting For Zion-esque Fatherhood & Beauty in a Brutal Babylon 01/24/2018
• Parenthood: The Eternal Fountain of Glory 01/22/2018
• Priority Parenting and Family Structure 01/01/2018
• Free Range Kids video clips & Lenore Skenazi 01/01/2018
• 10 Foster Parenting Myths 01/01/2018