Technology Filter Questions

 These five filter questions can be a good first step to staying in tune and in balance:

1. 1. 
   Am I using this technology to learn or to teach?
2. 2. 
   Am I using it to build faith and testimony in myself and others?
3. 3. 
   Am I using it to entertain in uplifting ways?
4. 4. 
   Am I giving enough undistracted in-person time to family and friends?
5. 5. 
   Am I devoting enough time to work, school, Church callings, and physical exercise?
6. Jan Pinborough, "Keeping Safe & Balanced in a Google You-Tube Twitter Facebook iEverything World," Ensign, Feb 2012, 20. 

Technology Use

"It takes careful monitoring to make sure we’re not allowing our technology use to numb our minds and consume much of the precious time God has given us."

Jan Pinborough, "Keeping Safe & Balanced in a Google You-Tube Twitter Facebook iEverything World," Ensign, Feb 2012, 20. 

We All Have Work to Do

We All Have Work To Do

“We have to work together to make a family succeed. But it’s not something we can do by assignment. It’s a matter of the heart. Children and parents have to have in their hearts a desire to make each other happy.”

Elder D. Lee Tobler (served as a member of the Seventy from 1998 to 2003), “Homegrown Happiness,” New Era,Feb. 2004, 12.

Giving Each Other the Benefit of the Doubt

Giving Each Other the Benefit of the Doubt

“Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other.”

Elder Marvin J. Ashton (1915–94) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “The Tongue Can Be a Sharp Sword,”Ensign, May 1992, 19.

Choose the Best Things

Choose the Best Things

“We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.”

Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “Good, Better, Best,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2007, 107.

Nothing Can Ever Go Permanently Wrong, IF...

President Howard W. Hunter taught, “I am aware that life presents many challenges, but with the help of the Lord, we need not fear. If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong.”

The Teachings of Howard W. Hunter, ed. Clyde J. Williams (1997), 40.

Mealtime

President Ezra Taft Benson taught, “Happy conversation, sharing of the day’s plans and activities, and special teaching moments occur at mealtime because mothers and fathers and children work at it.”

Parents can also take advantage of bedtime to increase quality time with their children. 

Ezra Taft Benson, To the Mothers in Zion (pamphlet, 1987).