A former Mission President in London and candidate for Utah governor, Richard was the director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children for President Reagan. He served on the President’s advisory panel for secondary and higher education. A graduate of the Harvard Business School, he headed a management consulting company for 20 years before giving it up to meet the growing demands of his writing and speaking schedule. Richard and his wife Linda are parents of nine children and authors of a dozen bestselling family and parenting books. They are now focusing on the phase they are entering: Empty Nest Parenting. Through their web sites valuesparenting.com and familynightlessons.com, their frequent national media appearances and theirspeaking and lecture tours (see https://www.theeyres.com/), they continue to work at their mission statement which is, “FORTIFY FAMILIES, popularize parenting, bolster balance, and validate values.”
Throughout this series, I’ve received thoughtful and provocative questions from…
We hear (or say) “eternal progression” so often that we…
Surveys show that most of us rate our relationships as…
In what important way does the American definition of “family”…
As we look at what the Restored Gospel tells us…
What is “nothingness” in scripture and in the Gospel? And…
A Democrat president resigning, a vice president trying to secure…
Where are we going, and where am I trying to…
We live in a world of constant score-keeping, comparing and…
There is one covenant path, but it is one that…
Many Christian denominations throughout the world refer to God as…
Perhaps the overriding truth the Restoration gives us about our…
The captain of a large ship, one dark stormy night,…
Our beloved President Nelson has said, and frequently reiterates, that…
A paradigm is a world-view or perspective, and our mortal…
Today’s Christmas Poem sprang from an interesting question we discussed…
About 10 years ago, I came upon a couplet that…
My efforts at poetry began with some attempted love-poems during…
November has been a tough month with three devastating deaths.…
For fifty years our holiday greeting has been a Thanksgiving…
This poem was inadvertently left out yesterday and the series…
I've been thinking a lot recently about unity within diversity…
There are, of late, an endless storm of podcasts, articles,…
This article has three objectives: 1. To take the fear…
If you had three wishes for your children, would one…
Balancing gratitude for the Restoration with respect for all truth…
Of all the forms that division and alienation can take—from…
Ideally, this resolution will cause you to think…and to plan…and…
In a day of widening divisions and polarization, are Church…
President Ballard has said, “The foundational fact of heavenly parentage…
It is impossible for others to even begin to grasp…
It’s one thing to discuss the Parental God theologically and…
Virtually everyone who believes in God believes in some form…
One way to think about our relationships is in the…
The Oneness and perfection of the Parental God, of Heavenly…
How can the knowledge of our parental relationship with God…
We have unequivocal prophetic statements affirming Her reality and Her…
Throughout ancient scripture and texts from virtually all faith traditions,…
It goes without saying that each of us must discover…
Knowing all we can about our Parental God is the…
The people of this planet, throughout its history and pre-history,…
Since there is no set roadmap for this personal journey…
In today’s turbulent world, parenting has never been more important,…
The article is not without its virtues, and it certainly…
At this point in my correspondence with Rhodes, I had…
In a correspondence, my curious friend said that he wanted…
In a correspondence I had with a friend who served…
I lost my father to cancer when I was 15.…
Are we an exclusive Church? Do we believe that we…
Scripture teaches us that America is a “land of promise,”…
One of the main themes arising out of our recent…
The instinctive answer, for most of us is “both.” Christ…
This topic may seem like a departure from the theme…
What does “salvation” mean to the Christian world? And what…
Of all the doctrines and truths lost in the Apostacy…
It behooves all of us who believe in that Restoration…
Too many of us sometimes seem more interested in researching…
We started with joy. We all began life with our…
Think about it. What do you really control? You are…
The irony is this: We started with joy. We all…
Today both poems are about the natural world, and the…
Today our first poem is about the marriage of a…
Today our first poem is about the danger of having…
"Thanksgiving" can be explored as a verb, as a noun,…
There's a cure to the sense of entitlement that seems…
Dan Brown's message in his new blockbuster, The Lost Symbol,…
What if all of these economic factors are just the…
New York Times #1 Bestselling Author Richard Eyre takes a…
Imagine the power of half a million readers, spread throughout…
A rested body renews itself and is more likely to…
A rested body renews itself and is more likely to…
Goals without plans or with fairly general plans have an…
Goals without plans or with fairly general plans have an…
When our motto is "hurry up," there is always too…
When our motto is "hurry up," there is always too…
Friends call at unexpected times. Sunsets surprise us. Ideas come…
Friends call at unexpected times. Sunsets surprise us. Ideas come…
We tell our children to "get serious" at the very…
We tell our children to "get serious" at the very…
The interesting irony of today is that many of us…
The interesting irony of today is that many of us…
Thoughtful "sitting there" is rapidly becoming a lost art, stomped…
Thoughtful "sitting there" is rapidly becoming a lost art, stomped…
In an increasingly complex world, some things are less 'black…
In an increasingly complex world, some things are less 'black…
Procrastination can become a terrible habit; but, used selectively, it…
Clichs often prompt unrealistic expectations, turn us into dissatisfied perfectionists,…
Procrastination can become a terrible habit; but, used selectively, it…
Clichs often prompt unrealistic expectations, turn us into dissatisfied perfectionists,…
If you wanted to destroy the family, here is how…
The importance of the family may get lip service from…
This week Richard lays out his "Top 10 List" for…