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This is what I have: Dear Parents, It has come to our attention that as of late, a lot of parents are choosing to stay with their children during nursery time. While we know and understand that you are anxious to be a part of your child's nursery experience, we feel that we need to add a few guidelines to make the nursery experience a more enjoyable time for everyone. As is church policy, nursery is an optional program for those aged 18 months to 3 years old, if you would like to start bringing your young child a week or two prior to their 18 month birthday to help them get acquainted with those found in nursery, then please do so, however we are unable to accommodate those younger than 17.5 months until such time church policy changes Nursery time is a huge milestone for your young child on their pathway to learning the Gospel, it's not merely a "baby-tending time". While we are busy teaching your child about the gospel, the Relief Society has generously offered up their room during nursery time for you to escape to, chat with the other women in our ward, and unwind after a long week of enjoying your toddler. Relief Society has also graciously offered to throw in a lesson especially targeted to the joys of womanhood which we hope you'll find most enjoyable. As the space in nursery is limited, we will no longer be able to teach parents in the nursery room and will be focusing primarily on our targeted audience. Starting immediately we will have a new drop & run policy for parents bringing their little ones to nursery. We will continue to bring your child to you should they have any concerns that need to be addressed during their time in nursery. Sincerely, The Primary Presidency

Update: We held a nursery / primary pres meeting and decided moms need to be gone, later spoke with bishopric who are behind us and of the same decision. A letter is to be made up and given to the nursery parents and the bishop will announce from the podium. I was put in charge of the letter. How to go about saying without sounding down right mean??? Every time I try to word I sound cruel...

THAT article was perfectly written.

We had decided a year or so ago as my asd son reached the 8 is great age, that baptism just wasn't on the table for him as his comprehension just wasn't there. Around March-ish... he came to me and said "I want to be baptized like Jesus was" I spoke to the primary prez, and she told me to jump on it... if he was expressing a desire than he could have the understanding for it to be done. Met with the Bishop who held the same views, and we started with the missionaries understanding that we need to take it slow, break it down and move at a slower pace so he can understand. It took until September, but we got there and went for our Bishops interview, very informally with the Elders, me, the lil guy and the bishop. I brought along my primary book of pictures to help him along ... went just fine. 2 days before his 9th birthday, he was baptized. In his confirmation yesterday, I was told he's going to serve a full time mission some day :) My advice? Cruise along. Let your child show you when he's ready. Take small bites, little bits at a time as he can handle it. If he never gets there that's ok too. Perfect spirits are here to teach us and may not need it.

5 kids + 5 moms + one nursery leader + one nursery worker =7 "adults" to 5 kids

Ooo Starbucks has this stuff, I don't even know what it is... it DOES have a name... my FIL started ordering it for me & says its perfectly ok.. It's like frothy warm milk with a vanilla shot in it.. so yummy

You're there to be her sister and friend, not her doormat. By all means if she needs a babysitter, provide her with a list of yw/ym that are looking to babysit for some cash, and if she doesn't already know them, introduce them. I also think this is something to have a chat with either to your vt supervisor or your rs prez

I'm actually in the primary presidency and the nursery leaders came to us with this concern. They said they've tried everything the can think of to get Moms out but they seem its social hour. One of the counselors has suggested a cutesy sign on the door, I'm thinking nothing short of locking them out is going to get em gone I think the fact that their chatting away without pause through lessons & prayers is most disturbing.

Having some issues with the moms of our little nursery class... they won't LEAVE They're disrespectful, talk thru prayers, the lesson.. and it's just too crowded in our little nursery room with 2 leaders, 5 kids, and 7 moms We need to either get them out so our nursery leaders can do their job, or at the very least keep them quiet and respectful Ideas?

My one year anniversary of being active is coming up, and I've just received my very first ever calling.......... second counselor in the primary presidency. I don't know what someone was thinking I'm super excited but at the same time feel so inadequate for what I see as a HUGE responsibility. I never went to primary, I joined the church in YW's. I'm terrified I'm going to fail miserably. I feel like this is a place where I could have a lot of fun & really enjoy my calling. When my bishop was speaking to me about this, he said something that stuck out about how I was never given the opportunity to attend primary and this would allow me to experience the most basic of teaching the gospel. What should I expect? I'm going for my first meeting with the primary prez and the first counselor (also just called on Sunday) this week. I was told to read the church handbook 2 chapter 11 (which I've done) and was given a small booklet on what the lessons will focus on each month for this year (outline for sharing time). We were also asked to have some names to submit for some teachers that need to be replaced. I did what I was asked... I prayed about it, when I was first asked I had thought of a name, but after praying about it only one name has come to mind (not who I originally thought of, TBH I know totally forget the first name...) I'm assuming that's my answer. I hope I'm doing this right......

Mirrors my thoughts as well. The lack of eye contact, fixation on a certain toy, the speech-language delays, together are all consistent signs in autism. I would bring up your concerns to either your primary prez or your bishop. I would also discuss with the bishop bringing it up to the parents. My biggest concern is that therapy is so key to these children, that a late diagnosis can have pretty severe consequences to the child. I have 2 sons with autism, and both times it took someone pointing out concerns for me to act and bring things up to our doctor. Not that I'm an uncaring parent that doesn't notice things with my children, but sometimes it's easy to dismiss issues thinking the child will catch up, or that it's just you being a paranoid parent. I totally missed things with my older of the 2, and he wasn't diagnosed until he was nearly 5, and as such didn't get as much of the therapy he could have so desperately used. As someone else mentioned, routine is everything to children with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) Nursery is not an everyday occurance and even though they may have been going for the last year and a half it's not an everyday routine.

I was a single mother of 4, since I had been 7 months pregnant with my youngest daughter, who was 2 at the time. I remember one night sitting with a friend, and telling him that I felt I would be waiting until my children were much, much older, at least until in their teens until I would be in a position to ever date again. After all what kind of man would be interested in a single mom with so many children... Then I met my husband, he was also a single father with 4 kids. I only went out with him as a night off to relax, have some adult chatter with someone that I shared a common thing with and get a free meal. I figured 8 kids between us, just no way. We've been married for 4 years and have added 2 more kids to the mix Wouldn't change it for anything

Be there for your child. Easy enough in the baby days when you need to be there to provide for their basic needs, but in the toddler days when they want to play with you, in the school days when they need someone to throw that baseball with... they'll learn you'll always be there with them. Discipline with love, not because you're angry or frustrated, but because you want them to learn the difference between right and wrong. Be consistent in your punishment, and always say what you mean. Be a good example. You can't honestly teach your child a lesson on the dangers of doing something when you are doing that exact same thing yourself. Don't even think they are not watching you and everything you do, they usually are. Be accepting. Your child will be his own person, and may not live up to what you have in mind. Let them discover what their own strengths are & help them develop those strengths into talents. Lead me, guide me, walk beside me...help me find the way.

I might be able to shed a little light beyond what the others have already stated as so far as the tea/coffee rule. Tea in most cases, refers to orange pekoe tea, the kind most distributed in the americas as "tea", your typical red rose, king kole or whatever brand name in your local area. One of the key ingredients in tea is tannic acid, it's also an item used in tanning things such as hides (cow hides, deer hides) to separate the skin from the fur on animals. Coffee, as most already know has caffeine, it's addictive just as the nicotine in cigarettes is. They are poisons to our bodies. We all have a mission here in this life we need to fulfill. By cutting our lives short by adding these toxins into our systems, we may not be able to fulfill those missions we set out to do in the pre existence. Hence, we're instructed to avoid them. As someone else said, herbal teas are considered medicine & to be used when needed, not for recreation. As for the after life questions, I guess it would depend on which degree of glory you obtain. Celestial kingdom will be like your very best day here on earth every single day, your absolute happiest day. Terrestrial will be like your average day here, it will have it's ups and downs. Telestial will be your Monday...every single day, if something can go wrong it will go wrong.

Things are moving so quickly now! I started submitting names on the 13 October, another batch was submitted 31 October, in total 9 names were submitted, all of them needing all their temple ordinances. This was my first time. 3 of them have now been baptized, 2 confirmed Stockholm temple, Varnal Utah Temple and a COLUM (which one is that?) temple. While I think it's really cool seeing these temples, I was kind of hoping that the temples that the work was done would mean something to me, rather than just being random temples...is that selfish? I did keep 2 of the names for myself and my daughter to do their work. While I still need to work on some things to be able to do it myself, my daughter has done proxy's with the YW's. Should I push thru and submit these last 2 names to be done? Am I holding up things on the other side for them by keeping these for us to do? I don't want to limit them by holding back, but I loved these women and want to be the one to do it for them.

Thanks... so stockholm.... SWEDEN????

So I submitted some names for some temple work and I can see that yesterday, 2 of my women relatives had their baptism's done. I don't understand what this means: Baptism Completed: STOCK 07 November 2012 Where's the STOCK temple? What is that?

I can't wait!! I'm going to miss them, especially my oldest, we're very close and a year and a half is a long time, but I'm excited to see her go off & serve and see some of this world. 5 more years til our first missionaries will be off... The way our children's ages work, some of them may not see each other for 4 years or more. My oldest daughter & son could potentially be serving at the same time with the new age changes, and while they are off, the next 2 will be getting ready to go, our ten kids are all about a year apart. I'm concerned what a 4 year separation will do to their very close relationship with one another, but excited at the same time, I wonder where they'll be called?

I have 2 autistic sons, one moderately affected, one severely. My moderately affected son is partially verbal ( he is verbal, but there's also a severe articulation disorder involved and as such what he does say is very garbled) he's 8. My other son is 3, completely non verbal, and at this time I don't see that ever changing. I can't stress enough how important an early diagnosis & early intervention is for your son. The time for that is NOW. The more help he receives prior to school, the better off he will be. I guess I should mention my 2 sons are only 2 of 10 (8 siblings) We've come into a few obstacles within the church sunday school program, and all I can do is tell you what we've done so far to help. My 8 year old is at that magical age... at this point, after discussions with the bishop, he won't be baptized. He doesn't have the understanding of what baptism is or why it's done. Instead, so he didn't lose out the bishop took him to the front of the chapel and introduced him to the ward just as he would any new convert or 8 yr old. Until (if) he is able to understand those covenants of baptism, he is seen as a perfect spirit, and as such doesn't need to be baptized. As for nursery with my 3 yr old... First he's very infantile. Along with the autism, he also has a chromosome duplicate on 16p (that alone causes him to be very short, unable to gain weight, low muscle tone etc) and has tourette's. (the poor kid got everything) He is 3, but to see him he looks and acts like he's about 12 months. He just learned to walk in the past few months. He attends nursery as any child would his age. He's included in everything. Though because he is so infantile, they called an assistant for him. Same type of calling as any other, but this is a calling just for him, they carry him, (his low muscle tone makes walking hard), they hold him, they feed him...they love him.

This sounds like it could be a lot of fun I have an assortment of kidlets that would love this. The closest in age would be my 4 yr old boy... I also have a 6 yr old girl Pm me & maybe we could work something out for them... We're in Canada

Ok now I see that my grandfather, great grandfather & great grandmother are all green on baptism

I've tried every where I can think of... I was adopted. I searched for & found my birth family, and have a great relationship with them. I've now reached the end of my tree on what I can do for my adoptive parents sides. I've gotten so far that everything else was tied together & done for me. I'd like to now do my birth side, so how do I go about listing that I actually have more than the typical one mother, one father? Also how long does it take typically from the time you submit names to the temple until their work is done? I submitted some names on Sunday, I now see that my grandfather's baptism is green (in progress) while his other ordinances are still yellow... does that mean anything? How will I know when it's been done? And if it has now been done, how long does it take to get listed as such? I have a feeling it was done, and I'm so curious to know which temple it took place at.

This is what the web site says: Before doing ordinances for a deceased person born in the last 110 years, please remember that close relatives may not want the ordinances performed, or they may want to do the ordinances themselves. You may do ordinances for your own deceased spouse, child, parent, or sibling, but please consider the wishes of other close living relatives, especially a living spouse. If you are not a spouse, child, parent, or sibling of the deceased, please obtain permission from the closest living relative before doing the ordinances. The closest living relatives are, in this order: an undivorced spouse (the spouse to whom the individual was married when he or she died), an adult child, a parent, or a brother or sister. IMH, after reading this I believe you may have come to a bit of a moral dilemma, that might be best approached after a discussion with your bishop. You do have her consent, but I still think it's something that requires at least a discussion with her spouse & a lot of prayer.

Looking for some fun ideas for FHE. We have 10 kids, and so far we've done lessons, on service and charity. It's hard to keep so many entertained. We did one a month or so back, ding dong ditch, where over the span of 3 days we managed to ding dong ditch the whole ward (ok at least 95%) -and we were nice, we left treats- which was such a great activity... the kids were constantly wanting to check FB to see who was posting or talking about it, we were the talk of the ward for a couple weeks, it was fun hearing the members guess on who the ding dong ditchers were.. and some even starting repaying the act by doing it to those they thought had done it to them....and yet no one ever guessed us It's a tough act to follow. Any ideas? We like doing fun, anonymous activities, where someone benefits, but we don't have to worry about being recognized.

Me too. Been there, done that, it's not a nice way to live. May I offer a couple suggestions? There are ways to shop for groceries super cheap, sometimes even something like a cup o soup, that will help ease off the hunger and at least have some nutritional value. I also coupon to bring our grocery budget down, judging by the size of my butt that I'm sitting on right now, we must eat quite well. It's not as hard as you may think, it's just a matter of combining a sale with a coupon to get more mileage out of your grocery budget, I'd be happy to show you the ropes if you pm me.