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In our Personal Touch with Rebecca Cressman segment, she interviews Shaun Barrowes, who is an internationally acclaimed, award winning singer-songwriter who has toured the world, received major radio airplay, and written music for major video games and movies. He’s also an American Idol finalist who believes he and his band members have benefited tremendously from their own High School music and arts programs, so he envisioned a way to give back. Shaun Barrowes and his band members are traveling the country with the “Live For Music Tour”, performing at high schools, with school Choirs, Bands, and Dance teams to raise funds for local school music and arts programs.




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 Annette Lyon, from Out of the Best Books, wrote this article called “Forgiveness and Gratitude.” She mentions a time in her life when it was hard for her to forgive. She tells us: “Grudges are painfully easy to hold onto and are hard to let go. A cloud descends, blocking out the spirit and making other things—like feeling genuine gratitude during the Thanksgiving season—almost impossible.” She then lets us know how she dealt with those feelings, and how she let go of them. A lesson for all of us.



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 Laurie D. at LDS Blogs talks to teens in her article “Teens: Who Do You Think You Are?” In it, she alludes to a movie that led many teens to wonder about just that a while ago. She says: “I immediately appreciated the message this movie portrays, that we are so much more than our obvious talents make us out to be. If this weren’t truth I would never have tried out for Pep Club my junior year of high school, as my obvious talents lay in the fields of music and writing. Yet I made it and had a wonderful time.”

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President Benson gave this talk “Following The Prophet - 14 Fundamentals by Ezra Taft Benson” at a BYU devotional on 26 February, 1980. Just recently, two General Authorities quoted from it. Maybe we should watch this video, and take notes.

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In our Personal Touch with Rebecca Cressman segment, she interviews Tom Dozier. Tom and Pam Dozier have been married for 35 years and have 4 children and 4 grandchildren. Tom became interested in behavioral parenting skills after experiencing problems with teenagers. He read “What’s a Parent To Do?” by Dr. Glenn I. Latham and was so struck by the power of the ideas in the book, he went back to college and received a graduate certificate in Behavior Analysis from the University of North Texas in 2004. He is a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (behavior scientist), and is a certified parenting instructor for “Parenting Tools for Positive Behavior Change” which is used in Florida to train Foster Parents. Tom has taught parenting classes in the Livermore, California area since 2003 and provides parent coaching and resources on http://www.ldsparentcoach.org/. Tom's goal is to provide LDS families the help they need to succeed.

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Aren’t we glad that parenthood starts (for most people) with babies? Although, I know of a couple of young ladies who married someone who already came with children, and one of them in her twenties was stepmom to teenagers. Yikes! In my opinion, we are given that which we can handle. Tom Dozier wrote his article “Help with Unruly Teens.” His opinion is as follows: “The teenage years are naturally tumultuous and difficult on both teens and parents. If you are struggling with teenage behavior, here are some resources that can help. First, ask yourself, “Just how difficult is my teenager?” I like that, you know, there’s a starting point, a simple question to ask yourself, and then you go from there. Where, is totally between you and your teen.

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To show that we have resources to help teenagers, we have two examples of how parents are dealing with their kids. From Mormon Women, contributor Jenny brought her article “We Believe: Daughters of Our Heavenly Father.” To help teenage girls, we as parents should use the material prepared by the church: For the Strength of Youth and the Young Women program. Jenny says: “My teenage daughter is a Young Woman in the church. While her dad and I do all we can to teach her at home, we know that in this world it is not enough. We need support from another source, and so does she — and the youth program provides it.”

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To have the boy’s side, we pulled up this video we found at Mormon Women. It portrays the relationship between a father and his son, and how they fixed the friction that existed between the two of them. Relationships are not easy, and we should nurture and treasure the ones that are eternal.



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