Eyres On The Road

In this episode, the Eyres begin by talking about their return from New York and their week with family as a granddaughter leaves for a mission in Australia. They then shift to an online seminar Richard is preparing called "How to LIVE" with month-long sections on How to LIVE physically, How to LIVE mentally, How to LIVE emotionally, How to LIVE socially, and How to LIVE spiritually. Write to EyresGrandparenting101@gmail.com if you want to participate.

In this episode, the Eyres talk about the power and recent popularity of three-generation families--of parents and grandparents working together for the good of the grandkids. Richard and Linda will keynote a national online Grandparent's Day conference on September 10 at GrandparentsAcademy.com where you can register for free. The best experts on grandparenting and on parent-grandparent communication will be featured from Sept. 10 to 16.

Lots of people have heard of "Joy School" and the Eyres are constantly asked exactly what it is. On today's episode they talk about the origins of "social-emotional learning" and how important it has become in modern education. Then they tell the story of how the non-academic preschool curriculum of Joy School came about and how moms form neighborhood co-op Joy School groups and rotate as teacher.

Richard flies solo today and talks about the brand new book that he edited, called NO DIVISION AMONG YOU. He feels like the polarization--and the "five D's" that go with it: discord, division, dissension, dismissal, and disrespect, are tearing apart our country, our communities, and even our churches and families. This new book, now available on Amazon, and at Deseret Book, contains 14 essays from diverse but committed Church members that can help us find UNITY.

The 29th installment in their ongoing series on "3-letter lessons" is the dual success formula "W&P" which on the temporal level is WORK AND PLAN, involving setting goals, creating plans, and working to achieve our own ends. But the Eyres suggest a higher, more spiritual formula for success where W&P stands for scriptural couplets: WATCH AND PRAY, WONDER AND PONDER, WAIT AND PATIENCE, AND WORSHIP AND PRAISE.

In today's episode, the Eyres tackle the question of whether AI is our friend or foe, of whether Artificial Intelligence can control us, can develop intimate relationships with us, and can eventually destroy us. Richard and Linda juxtaposition the hopelessness of an atheist view where we are overmatched by the first Alien Intelligence to ever exist with the hope of a faith-based view where there is a Divine Intelligence that has a plan for us all.

Today the Eyres return to their series on 3-letter lessons--simple three letter "word-pegs" that we can think about often and that can influence our priorities and actions. Today's word is the ever-interesting question of WHO. Who are you? Who are you becoming? Richard and Linda suggest an exercise where you answer the question ten times, prioritizing your answers, and then ask how much time you are spending on the important answers.

The Eyres are casting today from Bear Lake where their annual reunion is just concluding, and they are looking back over the chaos, confusion, learning and beauty of having all their kids and grandkids together in one confined space for a week. They explore the many different ways and means by which families can get together and communicate, and how they are always a mixed bag, but always, in the end WORTH THE EFFORT.

(Rerun from 10/15/22) In this new episode, Richard and Linda continue their series of three-letter concepts, and focus on our attitudes toward AGE, which is perceived so differently in various parts of the world. Then they drill down to the personal level and discuss "the joys of growing older" and the ways that parents and grandparents can form synergistic teamwork in how children and grandchildren are raised. Go to Grandparenting101.com for more information.

Richard and Linda are casting from London today, from the small Surrey village called Epsom where they lived for four years--three as Mission Leaders for their Church, and another year ten years later where they wrote their book Teaching Your Children Values. On the show, they reflect on what they have learned from the British, how they feel their children have benefited (all went to British schools), and how London has become their second home.

Today, the Eyres introduce us to a new book that Richard has edited, called "No Division Among You." It is a book of 14 essays, by some truly brilliant writers, each taking a stab at the problem of disunity, division, dissension, and polarization that impacts our country, our communities, and even our churches so profoundly today. How can we avoid division within our families? How can we find unity in diversity?

Three-generation families matter. Cousin-bonding matters. Family reunions and gatherings matter. Listening and communicating across generations matters. In today's episode, the Eyres expand on their T.E.A.M. approach to families. Work together on the Trunk that connects branches to roots, the Ear that really listens, the Assembling that bonds us to each other, and the Match that motivates self sufficiency in kids.

On this episode, the Eyres return to their on-going series on three-letter lessons to absorb and live by. S&N stands for Straight and Narrow, a phrase that can sound restrictive and confining but that is actually freeing and the path to lasting happiness. Quoting Tolstoy and Arthur Brooks and most importantly Jesus, Richard and Linda try to explain why the straight and narrow path (or the covenant path) is what leads to joy.

On today's episode, the Eyres talk about the recent death of one of Linda's life-long best friends, and the wish she shared with Linda the week of her death--that a cherished book she had written could be published. That dream came true, and the result is My Seventh Summer, by Eve Crane Dayton, now available on Amazon--a story of mystery, of family values, and of growing up on an Idaho sheep ranch. Linda ties it to the social-emotional learning of JoySchools.com.

In today's show, the Eyres conclude their 5-part mini-series on the problems caused by the "three deceivers" of CONTROL, OWNERSHIP and INDEPENDENCE and the beautiful solutions of their beautiful alternatives of SERENDIPITY, STEWARDSHIP, and SYNERGICITY. Perhaps the biggest tragedy of C, O, and I is the negative and destructive effects those paradigms have on family relationships, and the biggest reason to shift to the alternative attitudes of S,S, and S is the joy it will bring into your family.

(Re-run from 09/17/22) Today the Eyre's cast from Balboa and talk about their speaking and workshops in Huntington Beach this week to 500 entrepreneurs who had gathered from around the world to think about and work on their Relationship Skills. The goal, for them and for us all, say Richard and Linda, is to be as proactive and strategic and deliberate about the Family corner of our balance-triangle as we are about the Work corner and the Self corner.

On this episode, the fourth in the Happiness Paradox mini-series, the Eyres take the "three alternatives" to a spiritual level and tie each of them to the quest of seeking God's will. For more detail go to www.Familius.com/Eyre where you can get The Happiness Paradox or other Eyre books for 40% off (the author price). You are also invited to register for free at www.Iammomsummit.com where the Eyres will keynote on June 1.

In this episode, the Eyres focus on the flawed concept of personal independence, pointing out that, in truth, we are all completely interdependent on each other and dependent on God. "Independence" is the third deceiver, along with "control" and "ownership," that rob us of happiness; and Richard and Linda's new word "Synergicity" (a combination of "synergy" and "synchronicity") is the alternative spiritual attitude and the antidote.

On today's show, the Eyres take a break from their mini-series on The Happiness Paradox and talk (as they often do the first week of the month) on Grandparenting and on 3-generation families. They recommend the T.E.A.M. approach where T stands for "Trunk", E stands for "Ear", A stands for "Assembly" and M stands for "Match" Find out the magical meaning of each of these words by listening in either as a parent or as a grandparent.

In this episode the Eyres continue their mini-series on Replacing the Three Deceivers with the Three Alternative Attitudes. The second deceiver is the false and pride-instilling concept of Ownership, and the alternative is the humility and gratitude generating attitude of Stewardship. Making this transition can create a completely new and more joyful approach to life.