Eyres on the Road

In 2019 there is a lot fighting for our kids' attention. Phones, video games, school, TV, friends, and so much more can sometimes confuse priorities. But adults aren't immune to the distractions of the day. In order to provide great examples for our family, parents and grandparents should remember what our priorities are and focus on family too. Today Richard and Linda offered some great websites that can turn our phones into a positive force: valuesparenting.com, poweroffamilies.com for the Eyres tips and and tricks ifstudies.org The Institute of Family Studies can send you a bulletin 71toes.com, drippingwithpassion.blogspot.com, lovetaza.com for some of the Eyres' favorite mommy blogs. Including some from their own family. and of course The Eyres Instagram @richardlindaeyre

Richard and Linda are on the road to relaxation this week. While working on writing a new book they are spending some family/down time in Hawaii. The Eyres visit family a lot, and part of that travel is to offer generational help with kids. Today they focus on the help you can get in parenting from your own extended family and also from a higher power.

Today Richard and Linda conclude their short three part series on how to turn family relationships upside-down by removing decieving traits and inserting helpful ones. You might not be familiar with synergicity, but you probably understand the root. Synergy is the idea that the whole is more than just the sum of its parts, and in relationships that means when you work together you can accomplish more than you could independently.

Don't be an ownership parent, be a stewardship parent. Today the Eyres dive into the second deceiver from Richard's new book The Happiness Paradox in the second episode in a short series. Ownership can be such a point of pride in American culture, but the quest for more ownership can tear families apart. Replacing that attitude with one of stewardship can bring a unified focus to He from whom all things come.

Happy New Year from the Eyres and you know what that means; it's New Year's Resolution time. For these next three Saturdays in January (before you give up on your good intentioned goals) Richard and Linda will be focusing on how to improve happiness in your family by letting go of certain traits, and replacing them with better ones. Today learn about control and how an attitude of serendipity can relieve that stress. 

Today the Eyres give us a sneak peak at their new book The Happiness Paradox, which will be released on New Year's day. There are paths that lead to happiness in our families and the paths that lead away from it. As Richard and Linda explain on the show today, most of us pursue Control, Ownership, and Independence in the belief that the more of them we have, the happier we will be. But in fact, these are the three things that pull us away from true happiness. The first “side” of the book presents the problem, and when the book is flipped over, the alternative attitudes of Serendipity, Stewardship and Synergicity are suggested as the opposite approaches that can “turn our lives right-side up” and make us better spouses and better parents. These can also work as great goals for the New Year. For the next three days there is a pre-pub sale at www.amazon.com/gp/product/164170053X, and you can read more about the book there or on the home page of www.valuesparenting.com.

Last week on the show, Richard and Linda shared ideas of how to turn the focus of your holiday season outward. After some great feedback on that episode they'd like to talk more extensively this week on some specific ways to help others, and ways to make it a family effort. After all, the first Christmas story was about a small family of refugees. It's a season we can turn our hearts to those in need and children have a knack for that kind of empathy that can surprise you. For more information on what the Eyres talked about this week you can visit https://talentpledge.org/salt-lake-city-children-for-children-benefit-concert-2018/

Christmas is a special time of the year where we can turn our hearts toward each other. But when young kids are in the picture, it's not always the easiest task to teach giving over getting. Today Richard and Linda share a few experiences from their house about how to refocus Christmas and use it as a turning point to be ready for the New Year.

Richard and Linda are back with tip number 11 in their top ten series on marriage and relationships. It's a bonus tip that they just couldn't leave out. Working for equality in marriage sometimes misses the mark. Instead of worrying about how much each partner is doing, focus on the oneness of having the same goals. This is episode eleven out of ten in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. Today you get a bonus tip! If you missed any of their previous tips you can catch up on byuradio.org, the BYU Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

It is easy to get discouraged in the state of marriage. Today is the final tip of Richard and Linda's series on relationships and their ultimate message is to believe. Believe that it can work for yourself and your family on the micro level, and also believe in the institution across the world on the macro level. This is episode ten out of ten in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. If you missed any of their previous tips you can catch up on byuradio.org, the BYU Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Richard and Linda love Thanksgiving. How great is it that the whole country pauses for a day to remember gratitude? Today the Eyres give ideas on how your family, including extended families and friends, can love and have a more love filled holiday. And remember you can be thankful on other days too, so also try to use Thanksgiving as a Gratitude Springboard to thankfulness all year long.

Our slogan here at Eyres on the Road is 'Parenting in the Modern World.' Today Richard and Linda focus on how parenting is done all over the world as they continue their speaking tour across Europe. Eastern Europe didn't always have a Modern World feel, but as technology and other distractions have made their way to those countries over the past 25 or so years, parenting has had to keep up. It's always amazing that no matter where you go in the world, parenting is essentially the same.

Richard and Linda have been world traveling family coaches for decades, providing common sense advice along the way. Today the Eyres are on the Road to London, England to visit their youngest daughter Charity who appears on the show. Religious people can find help in all of the tips on this marriage-ing list and find ways to involve a higher power, but the Eyres wanted at least one tip to focus solely on the perspective that can provide. Learn more about Charity Eyre Wright at drippingwithpassion.blogspot.com This is episode number nine in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. There's only one tip to go, but remember you can always check back on old episodes at byuradio.org or wherever podcasts are found.

As Halloween approaches, Richard and Linda wanted to talk about one of the scary parts of getting married. Dealing with the in-laws! But these people are part of your family now too, and should be embraced (with more than just a hug). The Eyres give some ideas on how to make everyone in the family feel like family. And if you're the parents of the happy couple you have one big thing in common with the in-laws too, a love for those grandkids.  This is episode number eight in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. Watch for more tips on marriage-ing in the future!

Being married can be weird. For years before, you try to build yourself into a fierce independent being, then one day, you become part of a team. Independence helped you survive in the world. In a relationship though it can sometimes get in the way. Today Richard and Linda suggest ways to turn your independence into interdependence in one another. This is episode number seven in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. Watch for more tips on marriage-ing in the future!