Eyres on the Road
Richard and Linda Eyre are world traveling family coaches. Their common-sense approach to parenting brings hope and encouragement to parents everywhere. A production of BYUradio.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 631
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Children's Stories that Teach Joy and Values
Any parent or grandparent worth their salt has known the joy of reading to a child. And there are so many great stories to read! But the best stories are the ones that teach a principle. If a child's…
00:28:45 |
Sat 15 Aug 2020
The 8 Myths of Marriaging
Marriaging is an active, grow-and-improve word like parenting, and on today's show, the Eyres expose 8 myths or misconceptions about the world's oldest institution and how false paradigms and unreali…
00:29:10 |
Sat 08 Aug 2020
The Happiness Paradox/The Happiness Paradigm
The paradox is that the three things we think will bring us more happiness--more control, more ownership, and more independence--actually rob us of joy and happiness! The Eyres, on today's show, give…
00:28:37 |
Sat 01 Aug 2020
Being a Proactive Grandfather
Despite the fact that most Grandparents say that their grandkids are the best part of their lives, very little has been written on how to be a better, more influential grandparent. And most of what h…
00:22:50 |
Sat 25 Jul 2020
GRANDmothering
Linda Eyre's book on GRANDmothering has warmed the cockles of countless Grandma's hearts, opening up a treasure trove of new and practical ideas to create a love affair with grandkids and to become r…
00:28:53 |
Sat 18 Jul 2020
Family Poetry
Poetry is a different kind of form for a book by the Eyres but trust that the themes of family, faith, and love will still be there. Today Richard and Linda read aloud selections from Poems: About Fa…
00:29:41 |
Sat 11 Jul 2020
Tennis and Life
Tennis scholarships paid Richard’s way through college and today, he says, the game keeps him from "going to pot". As a nationally ranked senior player, he cherishes tennis as the one game where he c…
00:14:13 |
Sat 04 Jul 2020
A Diet for All Appetites
Controlling our appetites is an indispensable part of good parenting and good example-setting for our children. If we can learn to control our appetite for food, it will lead to control of ALL of our…
00:27:52 |
Sat 27 Jun 2020
Life in Full
What will the "Autumn" of your life be like? Will the golden years really be golden? With more than 80 million baby boomers all now in their 50's or 60's or early 70's, and with most of them able to …
00:28:35 |
Sat 20 Jun 2020
The Turning: Why the State of the Family Matters
Despite the success of the Eyre's "how-to" parenting books, they felt that it was time for something different--for a "why-to" book on what is happening to families around the world and why family de…
00:27:57 |
Sat 13 Jun 2020
Cultivating a Thankful Heart and Teaching Children to be Grateful
For more than forty years, Richard and Linda have sent out a Thanksgiving Card to friends and family at the holiday season rather than a Christmas Card. The traditional and original cards that go out…
00:28:36 |
Sat 06 Jun 2020
The Entitlement Trap
We used to call this problem "spoiled kids" or "selfish little brats" but today there is a better term to describe what is happening to kids who think they deserve to have everything they want, every…
00:28:35 |
Sat 30 May 2020
Five Spiritual Parenting Solutions
In all their experience with parents globally and in their own experience with their own children and grandchildren, the Eyres have become convinced that the only real and lasting solutions to parent…
00:28:34 |
Fri 22 May 2020
Secret Strategies for Mothers
On this first show after Mothers' Day, the Eyres pay tribute to Moms and their elegant fulfillment of the hardest job in the world. Linda wrote a book a few years back, with their daughter Shawni, ca…
00:29:02 |
Sat 16 May 2020
A Secret Code for Better Family Communication
On today's show, the Eyres talk about a Secret Code for families based on animals that children love. Humpback Whales never interrupt each other as they sing their deep-ocean songs. Crabs can be caug…
00:28:32 |
Sat 09 May 2020
Empty Nest Parenting
Both parents and children undergo a profound transition when children leave the home. As a child heads out for college or for a mission or for a job, he or she is still part of the family, but no lon…
00:28:58 |
Sat 02 May 2020
11 Elements of all Happy Families
On the first page of Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy says "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The Eyres' interpretation of that statement is that there are cert…
00:28:51 |
Sat 25 Apr 2020
On Perspective
In this time of crisis, uncertainty, and pandemic, The Eyres suggest that one of the things that helps most is to TAKE THE LONG VIEW OF THINGS! Yes, this is awful on many levels, but along with the s…
00:28:53 |
Sat 18 Apr 2020
Would You Like Two or Three Months to Re-Evaluate Your Life?
Just returning from the marriage of their granddaughter which Richard performed on a red rock plateau above the Colorado River, the Eyres were in a reflective mood for today's show and pondering some…
00:28:35 |
Sat 11 Apr 2020
How to Talk to Your Child about Sex
During this time of isolation and quarantine, while many of us have more time with our children than ever before the Eyres have a challenge: Use a little of this "extra time" to have some very import…
00:28:25 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
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