Eye Shadow Boxing

An anonymous sister writes: How involved should a good parent be in the amount of eye makeup a teenager wears? Kathy says: The reader's daughter is 14 and her mom is wondering how young is too young and how much is too much. 14 seems young to me. I thought 14-year-old...

English As a Second Language

An anonymous sister writes: Our Relief Society teacher was raised in the church, in Idaho, attended BYU, and sometimes seems to have read everything ever written about the lesson material and even to know many of the authors. I am a recent convert, just moved to the...

Feathering the Empty Nest

An anonymous reader writes: Nobody warned me about this. All those women who laughed it off as they cried at their kids' mission farewells, as if the tears were a fairly trivial thing compared to the triumph of sending a righteous son into the field. Why didn't...

Winning Ward Activities

Anne Barkhouse from Truro Branch, Nova Scotia, writes: Help!!! I am the new Activities Chairperson. What to do? Kathy says: I think the key to successful activities is to keep them easy, simple, and in many cases, short. We can learn wisdom from our forebears, by...