Eyres on the Road

One of the hallmarks of a good relationship is one that is always growing. It takes work and constant effort. Today Richard and Linda give you an alliterative checklist for improvement in your marriage. Does it have commitment, compatibility, courtship, chastity, and celebration? Then you're on the right track. This is episode number six in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. Watch for more tips on marriage-ing in the future!

Parenting in the modern world.

Traditional wedding vows say you take each other for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health. Richard and Linda talk today about the commitment it takes to succeed in marriage. If you know you are there for each other no matter what it can grant peace of mind.  This is episode number five in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. Watch for more tips on marriage-ing in the future!

Conflicts are bound to come up in any relationship. Being marriage and family experts hasn't made the Eyres immune to conflict, but it has helped them resolve it. They remind us that differences aren't inherently bad, but there are good and bad ways to deal with them. Today we get some tips on some of those good and effective ways. This is episode number four in Richard and Linda's Top 10 Marriage and Relationship Advice. Watch for more tips on marriage-ing in the future, and be sure to get caught up on tips 1-3!

Best-selling authors and world traveling speakers Richard and Linda share their experience on families. This week they continue their advice for relationships by debunking the 11 biggest myths of marriage. They also have a big announcement for fans of this recent series on, as they've coined it, marriage-ing.

Marriages are built of two different people coming together. In the last 'marriage-ing' tip Richard and Linda talked about relishing those differences, and so today they focus on not trying to change your spouse. If you notice flaws coming up in your relationship, direct your energy inward and be better yourself, before assigning blame outward to the person you love. This is episode number three in Richard and Linda's Top 20 Marriage and Relationship Tips. Watch for more tips on marriage-ing in the future.

While you hopefully enjoy a three day weekend around family or those you love, remember that there is another holiday coming up later this week. Today the Eyres remind us all about Grandparents Day, which is always the Sunday after Labor Day. Family means all your family, including the extended branches, so we in the Eyres on the Road family encourage you to reach out to a grandparent or older loved one this week.

New Year Resolutions are common, but for kids, a new school year is a much larger landmark. So why not make goals for that year as well? Richard and Linda talk today about some age appropriate milestones kids can aim for, and how parents can help them achieve them.

After almost 50 years of marriage, Richard and Linda Eyre have a lot to look back on. Today they share a couple stories from their lives together and how being different people has helped their relationship. Mr. or Mrs. Right doesn't have to mean someone just like you. It's important to allow each other room to be individuals while staying united. This is episode number two in Richard and Linda's Top 20 Marriage and Relationship Tips. Watch for more tips on marriage-ing in the future.

Let's talk about talking. When marriages tend to struggle there are often five disagreements that come up: money, intimacy, parenting, goals, beliefs. In order to combat this, the Eyres are devoting a new series on marriage. If people can think of parenting as a verb that takes work, then marriaging should get the same treatment. So instead of being worried about those five things, think of them as the five things to communicate about for a healthy marriage. This is the first episode in a new series from Richard and Linda. Look out for more entries in the Top 20 Marriage and Relationship Tips in the future.

A secret code is supposed to stay a secret right? Well Richard and Linda are letting you in on the secret today. Communication and discipline can be tough, but this final entry in the Top Ten Parenting Tips series divulges the secret code that can help you more discretely talk to your kids; and in a fun way! For more info on 'the code' and for nurturing children you can visit valuesparenting.com/vp/nurturing/

The Eyres preach values based parenting every week on the show, but what are these values and how do you teach them to the children in your life? Today Richard and Linda share the story of their first book "Teaching Your Children Values". It explains a way to pick 12 important values and focus an entire month on each one. For online resources on the values that Richard and Linda chose you can visit ValuesParenting.com

On the heels of their big family reunion the Eyres' minds are on the members of your family you don't normally think about. These can be distant cousins, grandparents, or others that you spend your time with and love. Many call them an extended family, but the Eyres just call them Family.

Making decisions now can help make life, and parenting, easier in the future. Richard and Linda talk about teaching children what kind of choices they can make in advanced and what the benefits are to looking ahead so they're ready to face whatever may come.

Raising kids is hard especially with social media and this sense of entitlement children get now a days. Richard and Linda give tips on how to combat this sense of entitlement and raise kids to value hard work.  Here's a link to learn more about Family Economy