Summer Heaton

Wow! It is already the end of the semester? It feels like no time has passed at all and yet I have so much more knowledge than I did before. I was a little worried at first for this class. I was on the waitlist so I wasn’t even sure I would get in and then Brother Williams emailed all waitlisted students and almost scared me into dropping it! Haha good thing I didn’t because it ended up being my favorite class I have ever taken. Even though it was an 8 am class I gladly made the sacrifice because I knew if I didn’t go I would miss so much valuable information. I’m so bad at waking up in the morning and there were a couple of days where I accidentally slept in but because of how excited I was to go to this class I was able to wake up. Brother Williams talks so fast that I felt like if I even missed 5 minutes of class I would miss so much information that he had to give me.  This was my first semester as a marriage and family pre-clinical major. I was kind of nervous

Look, there are a bunch of ways to do parenting. There are so many methods and self-help books on it. So many opinions and voices telling you the way to parent your kids. So who’s right? Who actually knows what's going on? Nobody. And everybody.  There are a bunch of ways to do it right and a bunch of ways to do it wrong. Everybody is a little messed up from their childhood no matter how good and how bad you were because here’s a secret. Nobody’s perfect! Isn’t that great? That means that no parent is perfect either! We all make mistakes and that's okay! Of course there are better ways to do things and we should always be striving for betterness. Our kids are/will be some of the most important things in our lives and of course we want them to turn out okay and to be okay.  So why do we parent? Why do strive to do the best? Many reasons but a few are because we want to protect our children. Not only protect but we want to prepare our children for the world so that they ca

Are you looking for a new path in life? Something to challenge you? Help you grow? Make you the best man you can be? Test you to your limits? Try Fatherhood! In this day and age fatherhood is downplayed and downgraded. Its mocked and misunderstood. It's a big responsibility and its being attacked, maybe not as full frontal as motherhood but the subtle workings of the devil cannot be missed any longer. Fatherhood is so important. It helps you to grow in the best ways possible and can be so rewarding. It benefits your children in so many ways it's hard to list them all. It is such a significant part of the family. A mother doesn’t want to do it all on her own. She needs support, comfort, and protection. Something that a father can selflessly provide. Why is fatherhood being attacked? Because it is so important. In the media, Fathers are stupid. The joke of the family. They get laughed at and mocked because they can’t seem to do anything right. They fall down a