Lighted Candle Society Videos

Here are some great videos to watch!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Link: http://www.lightedcandle.org/r/

Winner!

The winner of Joann Hibbert Hamilton's Safeguarding Families is

Benoit-Lancelot Kende!

Congratulations!!!!!!  And thank you to all those who entered!  Look for more giveaways in the future!   

Giveaway!

Receive a FREE copy of JoAnn Hibbert Hamilton's DVD set, "Safeguarding Families!"

"Safeguarding Families -- DVD #1: "How to Recognize Promptings of the Spirit" (51 min.) and "Protecting Families from Destructive Media," (45 min.) are popular talks given across the U.S. and Canada by JoAnn Hamilton, NOW available for your ward fireside, Young Women/Young Men, Fifth Sunday or FHE.

DVD #2 in Safeguarding Families contains information for parents and leaders given by people who are experts in their fields, Dan Gray, L.C.S.W., Todd Olson, L.C.S.W., Dorothy Maryon, MA, Dr. Matthew Hedelius, Psychotherapist, Jeffery Robinson, Ph.D. Recovering Pornography Addicts, who are well known in their communities, will add information that will be helpful in understanding pornography addiction.

DVD #2 includes a 20 minute presentation, which again includes experts in the field. It explains why we need to establish Child-Appropriate Community Standards and how to do it. (See pages 22, 23 and 26 about taking evil out of our environment, which is in the Relief Society/Priesthood manual, Teachings of the Presidents of the Church, President David O. McKay and Sept. Ensign 2004, President Gordon B. Hinckley) This presentation may be appropriate for Relief Society meetings, Work Meetings, Family Home Evenings, Firesides or Neighborhood Meetings.

DVD #2 also contains commonly asked questions and resources which families/leaders will find helpful."

(Source: http://www.strengthenthefamily.net/index_books_products.php)

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To win your own FREE DVD set of "Safeguarding Families", simply leave your name and email address in the comment section below! The contest will end Thursday night at midnight, Eastern time.  The drawing will take place Friday morning and I will announce the winner in Friday's post! Best of luck and have a wonderful weekend!!!!!!!!!!!

School‘s Reading List Includes Rapper 50 Cent’s Memoir

"In an attempt to get more kids to spend time reading this summer, a New York school district “freshened up” its summer reading recommendations to include titles and topics administrators thought teens would be interested in.  Included among these: rapper 50 Cent’s “From Pieces to Weight.”

Students of the Rochester School District were encouraged to read the rapper’s memoir which depicts (in graphic detail) the rapper‘s early life embroiled in the New York City drug trade and utilizes rough language and violent depictions that fans of 50 Cent’s music are undoubtedly familiar with.  “If it’s a situation where everything in the book is mother this and mother that, then of course it’s inappropriate,” Rev. Marlowe Washington, head of the Rochester Literacy Movement told the city’s Democrat and Chronicle.  “We have to understand what will get the kids interested, but there has to be a balance of how far we will go with that.”
Though she’s never read the book, school administrator Beth Mascitti-Miller said that district staff picks books for the list and will review them if there are complaints from the community.  “We want to make sure we’re putting appropriate material on the list,” she said. “You want to get kids interested, but you also want to make sure they have plenty of choices and that you’re not endorsing anything that might not be appropriate.”

Perhaps most controversial about the 50 Cent book is the author himself, known for explicit and often vulgar lyrics about drugs, sex and violence. Some of his songs include the sound of rounds of bullets being fired in the background.
The text of the book is no different. Described on its back cover as a “violent and introspective memoir,” it documents his childhood in Jamaica, Queens County, his experience selling drugs and his ultimate rise to stardom.
Scenes of the book depict violent gun fights, and the book makes liberal use of R-rated expletives.

(Article Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/schools-reading-list-includes-rapper-50-cents-memoir/ )

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A site that I would like to share with you tonight is a resource provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!  It is wonderful!  The site is entitled:  Combating Pornography
Check it out here: http://combatingpornography.org/cp/eng/

Again, welcome to our blog, and I hope that you find it as a great resource!  Have a wonderful evening!