From the category archives:

First Years of Marriage

Enhancing Your Child’s Success … Teaching Money Management & Entrepreneurship

April 6, 2010

Enhancing Your Child’s Success … Teaching Money Management & Entrepreneurship With all that is happening in our economy (i.e. recovering real estate market, fluctuating unemployment rate, decreasing company budgets and etc.), it is extremely important for us parents to teach financial principles and business concepts to our children. Regardless of whether you have mastered wealth [...]

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Strengthening Positive Habits for Family Focus

March 29, 2010

Strengthening Positive Habits for Family Focus Where will your children be in 20 years? NOW is the time to reflect and determine your specific vision for your children because the clock is ticking. Realize this: what they do today will dictate where they will be tomorrow. Various studies indicate that it takes between 28 and [...]

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Strengthening Your Family In Today’s Challenging Economy

March 26, 2010

Strengthening Your Family In Today’s Challenging Economy What is your life really all about? Are you making the most of your time? How important is your family to you? I ask these questions because in today’s challenging economy, it’s easy to get “caught up” in life’s hectic schedule and miss out on what’s truly most [...]

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Family Life’s Weekend To Remember

March 8, 2010

After talking to many couples, we all understand the importance of putting time into strengthening our marriage and family. Success leaves footprints! Two years ago, Syreeta and I attended a Family Life Weekend to Remember® program. And we had such an awesome time that we have become group leaders to help encourage more couples to [...]

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The World’s Longest Marriage (Of a Living Couple)

March 5, 2010

Can you really imagine being married to the same person for 40 years? How about 50 years? What about 60 years? Is 70 years even a possibility?… Well, how about 85 years? Yes, you heard me correctly!… 85 years of marriage! This is for real. And coming this May, this couple will celebrate their 86th [...]

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Couple Profile – Bobby and Frances Allen – “Meeting Your Spouse at 17″

March 3, 2010

I’m thankful to say that I met my wife when I was 17 years old – the first day I set foot on my college campus at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. We were participating in a pre-college program as part of the scholarship we won (The Meyerhoff Scholarship program). I remember thinking the [...]

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How Much Quality Time Are You Spending With Your Loved Ones?

March 2, 2010

Deep Question: How much quality time are you spending with your loved ones? There are 24 hours in the day. But when you remove the amount of time that you are sleeping, working (assuming you do not work with your loved ones), in the bathroom, driving alone in your car, glued watching TV, or on [...]

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What Are You Grateful For Today?

March 1, 2010

In less than 4 weeks, Syreeta will give birth to our next child. We are very excited and truly grateful to God. As we all know, in life, there continues to be a variety of experiences for us to have. 10 days ago, we rushed to the hospital emergency room at 11:15PM because my wife [...]

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Couple Insights: Mike and Lisa Perry – “Growing Closer Each Year”

February 26, 2010

During the month of February, we are excited to profile a different couple each day on our Blog site. We have asked each couple to share their answers to specific questions concerning marriage and family. The couples we have invited are at different stages in their marriage… Some have been married for decades while others [...]

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