Almost twenty years ago Nancy and I were planning the landscaping around our new house. A landscape architect had recommended a cluster of three fruit trees at the corner of our property. We wondered if that was too many trees … Read more
Author: H. Wallace Goddard
Wally Goddard is a retired professor of Family Life having served in Arkansas and Alabama. He developed programs on personal well-being, marriage, and parenting. He is well known for his many creative family programs, including The Marriage Garden, The Parenting Journey, and Blueprint for Happiness. Wally has authored or co-authored several books including Between Parent and Child, The Soft-Spoken Parent, and Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage. He has been recognized by his colleagues with several awards including the Outstanding Family Life Educator Award. Wally and his wife, Nancy, have three adult children, fourteen grandchildren, and have cared for many foster children over the years. Wally describes Nancy as the finest human being he has ever known.
Abandoning Anger
by H. Wallace Goddard
Under the banner of honesty, anger has been made into a virtue. Under the banner of psychological well-being, the expression of anger has been made into a necessity. From the beginning, it was not so.
Years
Why Doctrine Doesn’t Change Us
By Wallace Goddard · January 22, 2019
I love the insightful statement by Elder Boyd K. Packer:
“True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of
… Read moreFor the New Year: Renewal, not Resolutions
By Wallace Goddard · January 1, 2019
It is the time of year when our accumulated failures commonly move us to lofty resolutions. We plan to fellowship our neighbors, consume less than 30% of our calories in fats, budget more … Read more
Focusing on the Problems May be the Problem
by H. Wallace Goddard
The Balm of Gilead is closer than you might think.
We are all injured. Every mortal carries an assortment of chafes, bruises, and malfunctions. Some people’s disorders are more debilitating or apparent, but no mortal is … Read more
The Surprising Cost of Parenting Programs
by H. Wallace Goddard
All ideas on parenting are not created equal, and some “good ideas” may not be so good as others.
There is a general law that you get what you pay for. It seems that cheap chips … Read more
Taking Your Marriage From Misery to Joy
Mom says I was a pleasant baby. As I grew, I must have become less pleasant. I remember spending a lot of my growing-up years annoying and battling my siblings. I suppose that struggles with life and siblings teach all … Read more
The Problem with Bribing Your Kids
A big chunk of parenting time and energy is spent trying to get children to do some things or stop them from doing others. In the course of trying to get our children to “behave,” most of
I’m Just Being Honest
by H. Wallace Goddard
Perhaps the most pernicious sins are those that make us feel virtuous.
Perhaps the most pernicious sins are those that make us feel virtuous while we devastate our fundamental Christian professions. For instance, the Pharisees were … Read more
Blessed Are the Merciful
by H. Wallace Goddard
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. (Luke 15:32)
In a rural Utah town some years … Read more