Eyres on the Road

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PROPINQUITY Jan 13, 2024

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PROPINQUITY means "the state of being intimate and close to someone--as in close family kinship," and in this episode the Eyres discuss how we can build more propinquity into our 3-generation families through parents and grandparents working in synergy and even symbiotically together as managers and consultants with the common goal of the well being of the children.

GRANDPARENTING 101: The TEAM approach to a Joyful 3-Generation Family Jan 06, 2024

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This first podcast of Season 14 begins the new year with some ideas on forming effective and happy 3-generation families, and working in teamwork as parents and grandparents for the best benefit of our children. Also announced is the MasterClass the Eyres will teach in January, details at GrandparentsAcademy.com.

FRAMEWORKS for New Year's RESOLUTIONS Dec 30, 2023

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This episode concludes Season 13 of Eyres on the Road, and next week begins the podcast's 14th year, so the Eyres focus today on how we can all better-set our resolutions for 2024; and mention three alternative frameworks for setting effective goals for the year ahead, and for working with children of various ages on setting their own goals and hopes and resolutions for the New Year.

CHRISTMAS CONUNDRUMS Dec 23, 2023

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Santa or Jesus, commercial or spiritual, peaceful or spiritual, peaceful or frantic, getting or giving, hard-times or joy, closer or more distant to Christ. The dilemmas and conundrums of Christmas are many, and they are different for each of us. In this episode, Richard and Linda give some thought-solutions that may help us all to solve the dilemmas and cure the conundrums.

Family CHRISTMAS IDEAS, from the RIDICULOUS to the SUBLIME Dec 16, 2023

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Today Linda and Richard talk about some of the Christmas traditions, rituals, and ideas that have worked for their family over the years. These range from trivial ideas like hanging the Christmas tree from the ceiling so kids can't push it over to big ideas like how to escape Santa and commercialism on Christmas Eve by focusing entirely on Christ and on giving by staging an imaginative "Jerusalem Supper."

3-Letter Lesson #33: ALN Dec 09, 2023

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The Eyres share some recent tough times including several deaths within their immediate families and close circle of friends, and discuss the learning and perspective that can come with grief. This rolls into the word "align" (ALN) and some thoughts on how we can more deliberately align our goals with our reality, our character with our ideals, and our will with the will of God.

THOUGHTS on THE WORLD, and on DEATH Dec 02, 2023

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The Eyres are casting from the Yucatan today, and thinking about how we can make our children and grandchildren more empathetic, more aware, and more truly "citizens of the world." In the second half of the show, Richard and Linda shift to a more personal vein and talk about recent tragedies; and discuss how thinking and talking more openly about death can produce genuine interpersonal and family benefits.

HOLIDAY TRADITIONS and RITUALS Nov 25, 2023

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This episode (despite the fact that Richard has almost lost his voice from the Thanksgiving revelry) is about Thanksgiving and Christmas family traditions and how these rituals are more than fun little habits--they are the glue that holds families together, and observing them and making a big deal of them is important. And its not a bad idea to modify and create new traditions that teach the values we want our kids to have.

THANKSGIVING and the "GRATITUDE-FORK" Nov 18, 2023

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Today, Linda and Richard delve into their favorite word (and favorite holiday) "Thanks-giving." They discuss how real gratitude is more than a path or a way to happiness--that real, heart-felt thankfulness actually IS happiness in its most obtainable form. But as the Eyres point out, there is a fork in the road of gratitude and one path leads off toward pride while the other produces real humility. See Meridian Magazine or instagram @richardlindaeyre for more.

The MAGIC of BOOKS (and of THANKS-GIVING) Nov 11, 2023

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The Eyres devote this episode to their love of books, and give a few clues about their own forthcoming books; and talk about writing in general and the various publications they are publishing articles and poems in these days. But they begin the show with November Thanks-giving and with their conviction that "Gratitude is not the path to happiness, gratitude IS happiness in its most obtainable form."

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