The Words of the Lapres Family

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Announcing: The Home Church Theme Song Contest of 1986 (Myrna Lapres - March 1986)

Religious Education for our Children and Youth Webinar (Myrna Lapres - September 26, 2014 pdf)

True Mother inspires The Principled Academy in San Leandro, California to study live Monarch butterfly (Myrna Lapres - December 16, 2014)

Monthly sisters’ gathering at the Atlanta Family Church (Myrna Lapres - February 2, 2016 pdf)

Michael & Myrna Lapres - Starting Over in Georgia (Cabot W. Peterson - March 23, 2016 pdf)

2016 Global Humanitarian Summit in Marietta, Georgia (Myrna Lapres - March 29, 2016 pdf)

Golden Truths about Parenting, a Partnership with God (Myrna Lapres - July 26, 2016 pdf)

Atlanta, Georgia Family Church held a Special Grace Ceremony (Myrna Lapres - August 21, 2016 pdf)

Living Lives with Intention: International Day of Peace Celebration in Georgia (Myrna Lapres - October 2, 2017 pdf)

Peace in a Handbag: WFWP Georgia Participates In "The Handbag Project" (Myrna Lapres - November 1, 2017 pdf)

On The Parenting Journey (Myrna Lapres - May 28, 2018 pdf)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Myrna Lapres - June 14, 2018 pdf)

Creating Beautiful Family Memories (Myrna Lapres - June 29, 2018 pdf)

Why Family Traditions Are Important (Myrna Lapres - July 12, 2018 pdf)

WFWP Georgia's Healing Ourselves, We Can Heal Our World Program (Myrna Lapres - July 14, 2018 pdf)

Self-Concept, Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy (Myrna Lapres - July 20, 2018 pdf)

Struggle is an Important Part of Growth (Myrna Lapres - July 27, 2018 pdf)

Raising Children is an Opportunity to Heal and Reparent Ourselves (Myrna Lapres - August 3, 2018 pdf)

Article: I Love You and You've Got This (Myrna Lapres - August 3, 2018 pdf)

Vitamin C for the Soul (Myrna Lapres - August 16, 2018 pdf)

Sharing Control Through Choices (Myrna Lapres - August 21, 2018 pdf)

WFWP National Leadership Retreat at the Calvin Center in Hampton, Georgia (Myrna Lapres - August 30, 2018 pdf)

Empathy -- The Thread That Connects Us (Myrna Lapres - September 14, 2018 pdf)

USA: Leadership Retreat 2018 - Creating a Culture of Empowerment (Myrna Lapres - September 14, 2018 pdf)

What's Your Parenting Style? (Myrna Lapres - September 20, 2018 pdf)

Chores Are Contributions to the Family (Myrna Lapres - September 28, 2018 pdf)

The Day the Guinea Pigs Died (Myrna Lapres - October 5, 2018 pdf)

You Are Worthy, You Are Lovely, You Are Enough and You Have What It Takes! (Myrna Lapres - October 12, 2018 pdf)

Parenting: A Partnership with God (Myrna Lapres - October 26, 2018 pdf)

WFWP VA's conference on The Role of Women of Faith in Building Peace (Myrna Lapres - October 27, 2018 pdf)

Family Life and Cell Phones (Myrna Lapres - November 9, 2018 pdf)

Gratitude as a Daily Practice (Myrna Lapres - November 23, 2018 pdf)

WFWP Northern California and Georgia fundraise for WFWP's Schools of Africa (Marie Bond and Myrna Lapres - November 25, 2018 pdf)

The Best Christmas Gift Is a Loving Experience (Myrna Lapres - December 7, 2018 pdf)

Christmas Memories: What memories will you be creating this holiday season? (Myrna Lapres - December 14, 2018 pdf)

Grandparents! (Myrna Lapres - December 28, 2018 pdf)

Gifts We Can Give Our Children: Empathy (Myrna Lapres - January 4, 2019 pdf)

Gifts We Can Give Our Children: The Freedom to Make Mistakes (Myrna Lapres - January 11, 2019 pdf)

Gifts We Can Give Our Children: The Gift of Thinking (Myrna Lapres - January 18, 2019 pdf)

Gifts We Can Give Our Children: Model the Qualities We Want Them to Inherit (Myrna Lapres - January 25, 2019 pdf)

Gifts We Can Give Our Children: Sharing Control (Myrna Lapres - February 1, 2019 pdf)

Gifts We Can Give Our Children: Connection (Myrna Lapres - February 7, 2019 pdf)

Now That They're Grown: Loving and Parenting Adult Children (Myrna Lapres - February 22, 2019 pdf)

Family Synergy: Being In Tune (Myrna Lapres - March 7, 2019 pdf)

Love Is A Verb--Pushing the Pause Button (Myrna Lapres - March 15, 2019 pdf)

Being a Parent – Job, Responsibility or Calling? (Myrna Lapres - March 21, 2019 pdf)

Family Synergy -- One Plus One Equals Three (Myrna Lapres - March 22, 2019 pdf)

WFWP Georgia Pioneers Exciting New Cornerstone for Happiness Curriculum (Myrna Lapres - March 23, 2019 pdf)

Being a Parent: Job, Responsibility or Calling? (Myrna Lapres - March 29, 2019 pdf)

WFWP's Cornerstone of Happiness Marriage and Family Seminar North Carolina (Myrna Lapres - March 30, 2019 pdf)

WFWP Georgia is Filling the World with Love, One Handbag at a Time (Myrna Lapres - March 31, 2019 pdf)

The Power of Weekly Family Time (Myrna Lapres - April 4, 2019 pdf)

Family Meetings: Recipe for Success (Myrna Lapres - April 10, 2019 pdf)

When you're a bucket filler, you make the world a better place! (Myrna Lapres - April 26, 2019 pdf)

How Mother's Day Began From Women's Peace Groups (Myrna Lapres - May 2, 2019 pdf)

Mothers Love Through Their Actions (Myrna Lapres - May 8, 2019 pdf)

Thistle Farms: If You Want to Heal a Village, Heal the Women (Myrna Lapres - May 15, 2019 pdf)

Edna Ruth Byler - Mothers Lead to Make a Difference (Myrna Lapres - May 16, 2019 pdf)

Don't Let the Culture Raise Your Kids by Marcia Segelstein (Myrna Lapres - May 23, 2019 pdf)

Five Things a Parent Coach Wants Every Parent to Know (Myrna Lapres - May 30, 2019 pdf)

Reading--The Perfect Brain Food (Myrna Lapres - June 7, 2019 pdf)

What I Learned From Watching My Dad - Happy Father's Day (Myrna Lapres - June 14, 2019 pdf)

WFWP Georgia's the Leadership of the Heart Retreat in Savannah (Myrna Lapres - June 21, 2019 pdf)

What's On Your Family Play List? (Myrna Lapres - June 27, 2019 pdf)

Simple Strategies That Turn Off the Tantrums and Create Cooperation (Myrna Lapres - July 5, 2019 pdf)

Parenting is an Inside Job (Myrna Lapres - July 18, 2019 pdf)

The Power of Connection (Myrna Lapres - July 26, 2019 pdf)

WFWP Norfolk, VA and WFWP Georgia support Women's Literacy in Haiti (Myrna Lapres and Claire Daugherty - August 15, 2019 pdf)

Helping Our Children Fall in Love with the Outdoors (Myrna Lapres - August 16, 2019 pdf)

Helping Our Children Deal with Death (Myrna Lapres - August 23, 2019 pdf)

The Best Way to Nurture Your Child's Brain (Myrna Lapres - August 30, 2019 pdf)

The Long View: Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona, Spain and Maya Angelou (Myrna Lapres - September 13, 2019 pdf)

WFWP Georgia co-sponsors Japan Fest at the Atlanta Family Community Center (Myrna Lapres - September 15, 2019 pdf)

Good Choices Marble Jar Friends (Myrna Lapres - September 19, 2019 pdf)

Healing Through Being Present - Making Order Out of Chaos (Myrna Lapres - September 27, 2019 pdf)

Triggers and Awakenings (Myrna Lapres - October 4, 2019 pdf)

Relationship Translator (Myrna Lapres - October 11, 2019 pdf)

Embrace the Child Within (Myrna Lapres - October 25, 2019 pdf)

The Nine Most Important Minutes of Your Child's Day (Myrna Lapres - November 1, 2019 pdf)

A True Love Story -- Sir Gawain and Ragnell (Myrna Lapres - November 8, 2019 pdf)

Life Lessons While Shopping (Myrna Lapres - November 29, 2019 pdf)

In the Final Moments of His Life, Calvin Has One Last Talk with Hobbes (Myrna Lapres - December 6, 2019 pdf)

Franz Kafka and the Lost Doll (Myrna Lapres - December 12, 2019 pdf)

Choices and Goals in 2020 - Think About Different Choices in Areas of Your Life (Myrna Lapres - December 27, 2019 pdf)

Parent-Child Connection - The Core Relationship that Rules the World (Myrna Lapres - January 3, 2020 pdf)

MLK Day: Powerful Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Myrna Lapres - January 10, 2020 pdf)

Realizations from a Broken Oven (Myrna Lapres - January 17, 2020 pdf)

Looking Back to Look Ahead (Myrna Lapres - January 24, 2020 pdf)

More on Family Synergy - Facing the Odds to Win (Myrna Lapres - February 7, 2020 pdf)

Don’t live so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention! (Myrna Lapres - February 14, 2020 pdf)

Screen Time Challenges (Myrna Lapres - February 21, 2020 pdf)

Simple Wisdom for Life - All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten (Myrna Lapres - February 28, 2020 pdf)

What I Learned from an Unwelcome Visitor to Our Attic (Myrna Lapres - March 6, 2020 pdf)

WFWP Georgia launches new heartistic series: Heal Your Family, Heal the World (Myrna Lapres - March 23, 2020 pdf)

WFWP Georgia: Finding Unconditional Love Through Healing and Understanding (Myrna Lapres - June 2020 pdf)

Resources for Finding Inner Peace: Real Love Small Group and Prepare Enrich (Myrna Lapres - June 19, 2020 pdf)

Reclaiming Your Power - Real Love in Action (Myrna Lapres - June 29, 2020 pdf)

Ending Racism Starts with Me Georgia - Power vs Force: What Will Bring Peace? (Myrna Lapres - July 11, 2020 pdf)

The 7 Best Gifts to Give Your Child (Myrna Lapres - July 27, 2020 pdf)

WFWP USA Peace Road Southeast: People are hard to hate close up. Move in! (Natascha Phillips and Myrna Lapres - August 5, 2020 pdf)

Lessons from a Chandelier - The More Light We Allow The Brighter Our World Is (Myrna Lapres - September 16, 2020 pdf)

Interview with Myrna Lapres: My time as WFWP Southeast Director - Reflections (Natascha Phillips - October 2020 pdf)

Gratitude: How We Live Each Day (Myrna Lapres - November 20, 2020 pdf)

When we value each other without judgement, connection can transcend all differences (Myrna Lapres - December 23, 2020 pdf)

WFWP Northern Cal's GWPN webinar: Women as Leaders: Building Community (Myrna Lapres - March 13, 2021 pdf)

Hummingbird Parenting - Excerpt from 7 Gifts to Give Your Child - Parenting That Will Touch Their Future (Myrna Lapres - May 28, 2021 pdf)

Showing Up and Parenting (Myrna Lapres - June 22, 2021 pdf)

Identify and Confront Your Negative Concepts: Women as Leaders (Myrna Lapres - July 1, 2021 pdf)

WFWP Northern California: Peace Begins With Me and My Family webinar (Myrna Lapres - September 18, 2021 pdf)

Self-Care Isn't Selfish - Heal Yourself, Heal Your Family, Heal the World (Myrna Lapres - October 28, 2021 pdf)

Reminders from the ocean - Things in my life that weren't meant to be controlled (Myrna Lapres - November 5, 2021 pdf)

WFWP Northern California's Sweet Treats Schools of Africa Fundraiser (Myrna Lapres - November 13, 2021 pdf)

Dear Parents And Grandparents Give An Experience - The Gift Of Time (Myrna Lapres - December 3, 2021 pdf)

Being A Grandparent May Be Your Greatest Legacy (Myrna Lapres - December 15, 2021 pdf)

Give My Book 7 Gifts to Give Your Child: Parenting That Will Touch Their Future (Myrna Lapres - December 23, 2021 pdf)

Making Family A Priority (Myrna Lapres - February 3, 2022 pdf)

Love Is A Verb - Learning To Push The Pause Button (Myrna Lapres - February 14, 2022 pdf)

WFWP USA: Presenter Donna Avey at the monthly Self-Care Isn't Selfish series (Myrna Lapres - March 12, 2022 pdf)

WFWP USA: Myrna Lapres' 7 Gifts to Give Your Child Program for Young Moms (Angelika Selle - March 21, 2022 pdf)

Parenting - Discovering Our Best Selves (Myrna Lapres - March 25, 2022 pdf)

FFWPU USA: Myrna Lapres's Young Mothers program - Finding Our Best Selves (Naokimi Ushiroda - March 28, 2022 pdf)

Accountability with Digital Devices - Cell Phones Harmful During Family Time (Myrna Lapres - April 5, 2022 pdf)

Enforceable Statements: A highly effective tool that I teach to parents (Myrna Lapres - April 12, 2022 pdf)

Taking The Long View - Intentional Parenting, You Make A Plan And Prioritize (Myrna Lapres - April 18, 2022 pdf)

Making New Patterns in Our Relationships (Myrna Lapres - April 26, 2022 pdf)

Parenting and the Brain - Our Chance to Re-Parent Ourselves (Myrna Lapres - May 5, 2022 pdf)

Our Brains in Relationship - Healthy relationships helps us have a healthy brain (Myrna Lapres - May 10, 2022 pdf)

Flipping Your Lid! - The Upstairs And Downstairs Parts Of Your Brain (Myrna Lapres - May 17, 2022 pdf)

The Power of Connection - Building Connection in Relationships (Myrna Lapres - May 31, 2022 pdf)

Celebrating Dads - The Third Sunday In June Honors Fathers And Father Figures (Myrna Lapres - June 9, 2022 pdf)

How's Your Relationship? - There Are No Shortcuts To Achieving Closeness (Myrna Lapres - June 20, 2022 pdf)

Cultivating Presence - Practices that help me develop presence in my daily life (Myrna Lapres - June 27, 2022 pdf)

What's On Your Family Play List This Summer? (Myrna Lapres - July 4, 2022 pdf)

Steps to Cultivating Family Communication and Connection: The Space Between (Myrna Lapres - July 18, 2022 pdf)

Our Adult Children - Keep Your Mouth Shut And The Welcome Mat Out (Myrna Lapres - July 28, 2022 pdf)

WFWP USA: Parenting: A Partnership with God (Myrna Lapres - July 28, 2022 pdf)

Touch: The Power to Comfort and Heal (Myrna Lapres - August 3, 2022 pdf)

Listening to Understand - Why God gave us two ears and only one mouth (Myrna Lapres - August 10, 2022 pdf)

A New Way To Experience Life - Radical Wholeness, A Ten-Week Online Journey (Myrna Lapres - August 16, 2022 pdf)

The Gift of Experience - My Ocean Challenge Leadership Program (Myrna Lapres - September 1, 2022 pdf)

Cultivating Resilience - Children Need To Fail In Order To Succeed (Myrna Lapres - September 16, 2022 pdf)

Building Grit - Improve Performance With Grit (Myrna Lapres - September 28, 2022 pdf)

Self-Care Isn't Selfish - Find the God Within (Myrna Lapres - October 4, 2022 pdf)

Doing Hard Things: More on Resilience - Everyone has to do something hard (Myrna Lapres - October 10, 2022 pdf)

Family and Community - We are meant to learn love through our family relations (Myrna Lapres - October 17, 2022 pdf)

The Impact of Negativity (Myrna Lapres - October 25, 2022 pdf)

Gratitude Challenge - Giving thanks and showing appreciation is an art (Myrna Lapres - November 1, 2022 pdf)

WFWP USA Webinar: The Sacred Space Between: Self-Care Isn't Selfish (Myrna Lapres - November 11, 2022 pdf)

More On Gratitude - At This Time Of Year We Think About What We Are Grateful For (Myrna Lapres - November 16, 2022 pdf)

The Carrot, the Egg and the Coffee Bean - A Parable (Myrna Lapres - November 23, 2022 pdf)

Being the Best Parent You Can Be (Myrna Lapres - November 30, 2022 pdf)

Christmas Experiences Make Memories (Myrna Lapres - December 14, 2022 pdf)

You Are Their Favorite Gift (Myrna Lapres - December 20, 2022 pdf)

The God Within - Self Care isn't Selfish Continues (Myrna Lapres - December 23, 2022 pdf)

Colorado Family Church: Upcoming Parenting / Grandparenting Workshop by Myrna Lapres (Michael and Adonia Hentrich - January 3, 2023 pdf)

Gratitude Jar: Start A New Tradition (Myrna Lapres - January 4, 2023 pdf)

Claim Your Victories as a Parent and Grandparent (Myrna Lapres - January 11, 2023 pdf)

WFWP USA: Energy Healing with the Emotion Code and Body Code Methods (Myrna Lapres - January 13, 2023 pdf)

Growing in Community - Boy Scout Eagle Court of Honor (Myrna Lapres - January 16, 2023 pdf)

Colorado Family Church: Investing In Families and Parenting With Family Coach Myrna Lapres (Michael and Adonia Hentrich - January 22, 2023 pdf)

Living With Awe and Wonder (Myrna Lapres - January 23, 2023 pdf)

The Blessing of Feeling Forgiven (Myrna Lapres - January 30, 2023 pdf)

Begin Anew Today (Myrna Lapres - February 6, 2023 pdf)

Stage of Attachment: Birth to 18 months (Myrna Lapres - February 16, 2023 pdf)

Stage of Exploration: 18 months to 3 years - Who are you? and What is this? (Myrna Lapres - February 20, 2023 pdf)

Stage of Identity - 3-4 years - Who am I in relationship to others and the world (Myrna Lapres - February 27, 2023 pdf)

WFWP: Unlocking Your Powerful State: Self-Care Isn't Selfish Webinar (Myrna Lapres - March 2023 pdf)

WFWP USA: Unlocking Your Powerful State: Self-Care Isn't Selfish Webinar (Myrna Lapres - March 2023 pdf)

Stage of Competence - 4-7 years old (Myrna Lapres - March 6, 2023 pdf)

Stage of Concern--7 to 12 years old (Myrna Lapres - March 13, 2023 pdf)

The Stage of Intimacy--12 to 18 years (Myrna Lapres - March 20, 2023 pdf)

Cultivating Divergent Thinking - Discovering New Possible Solutions (Myrna Lapres - March 27, 2023 pdf)

Becoming More Present - Become Unconditionally Loving (Myrna Lapres - April 5, 2023 pdf)

Making Time for Self-Care - Heal Your Inner Child (Myrna Lapres - April 10, 2023 pdf)

Learning Better Ways to Communicate (Myrna Lapres - April 17, 2023 pdf)

A Structured Dialogue to Create Safety - Any Relationship Can Be Transformed (Myrna Lapres - April 25, 2023 pdf)

Life Lessons from Lavender: Please Pay Attention (Myrna Lapres - May 1, 2023 pdf)

How Did Mother's Day Begin? (Myrna Lapres - May 8, 2023 pdf)

Practice Radical Responsibility (Myrna Lapres - May 15, 2023 pdf)

Love My Neighbor As Myself (Myrna Lapres - May 22, 2023 pdf)

What's On Your Family Play List? Play Is Anything But Trivial (Myrna Lapres - May 30, 2023 pdf)

Reading - The Perfect Brain Food (Myrna Lapres - June 5, 2023 pdf)

Rethinking Family Dinner - Children who eat dinner with their families have healthier diets, better manners, larger vocabulary, and higher self-esteem (Myrna Lapres - June 12, 2023 pdf)

Tell Your Story! Children who know their family history are healthier and happier (Myrna Lapres - June 19, 2023 pdf)

Saying Goodbye - Helping children deal with death (Myrna Lapres - June 23, 2023 pdf)

Be A Bucket-Filler - You Make The World A Better Place (Myrna Lapres - July 3, 2023 pdf)

Leading The Way - As parents, we are tasked with the responsibility to lead (Myrna Lapres - July 10, 2023 pdf)

Our Lives Reflect Our Values (Myrna Lapres - July 24, 2023 pdf)

What's Next? What Can I Do? - Fight Human Trafficking (Myrna Lapres - July 31, 2023 pdf)

Trust Is Built One Marble At A Time (Myrna Lapres - August 14, 2023 pdf)

Discover The Beauty Within - The Story Of A Man Who Went Into A Gift Shop (Myrna Lapres - August 21, 2023 pdf)

Control and Surrender - Surrender and Connection Series (Myrna Lapres - August 31, 2023 pdf)

Our Body's Superhighway (Myrna Lapres - September 5, 2023 pdf)

Transform the World Through Your Parenting (Myrna Lapres - September 11, 2023 pdf)

Contributions to the Family - Chores (Myrna Lapres - September 18, 2023 pdf)

Fall in Love with the Outdoors (Myrna Lapres - September 25, 2023 pdf)

Guiding Questions and Enforceable Statements (Myrna Lapres - October 2, 2023 pdf)

Re-parenting Ourselves (Myrna Lapres - October 9, 2023 pdf)

Time - Today is a gift. Perhaps that's why it's called the present (Myrna Lapres - October 16, 2023 pdf)

My Piece Of The Puzzle - Envision The Whole World As A Jigsaw Puzzle (Myrna Lapres - October 23, 2023 pdf)

Creating Happiness is an Art - We Can Learn the Art of Creating Happiness (Myrna Lapres - October 30, 2023 pdf)

Beginning Anew Step 1- Watering Each Other's Flowers (Myrna Lapres - November 6, 2023 pdf)

Expressing Regret - The second step in the four-step practice Beginning Anew (Myrna Lapres - November 13, 2023 pdf)

Asking For More Information - The Third Part Of Beginning Anew (Myrna Lapres - November 20, 2023 pdf)

The Fourth Part of Beginning Anew: Expressing Hurt, Disagreement or Frustrations (Myrna Lapres - November 27, 2023 pdf)

What's On Your Family's Play List? - Play - How it Shapes the Brain (Myrna Lapres - December 4, 2023 pdf)

WFWP Northern California's Gifts from the Heart Schools of Africa Fundraiser (Myrna Lapres - December 10, 2023 pdf)

Give the Gift of Reading (Myrna Lapres - December 13, 2023 pdf)

Give the Gift of Experiences (Myrna Lapres - December 18, 2023 pdf)

Is Santa Claus Real? (Myrna Lapres - December 25, 2023 pdf)

What Choices Will You Make In 2024? - Regrets of the Dying (Myrna Lapres - January 1, 2024 pdf)

Doing Life With Your Adult Child - Parents Have To Let Go Of Control (Myrna Lapres - January 8, 2024 pdf)

Parents of Adult Children: Keep The Welcome Mat Out (Myrna Lapres - January 15, 2024 pdf)

Icebergs and Relationships - What Is Visible Above The Surface (Myrna Lapres - January 31, 2024 pdf)

This is Water, a Parable (Myrna Lapres - February 5, 2024 pdf)

Parents and adult children - Become wise, and responsible, and satisfied in life (Myrna Lapres - February 14, 2024 pdf)

Give Love Every Day (Myrna Lapres - February 19, 2024 pdf)

Our Words Have Power - Every word we speak has energy and power, power to hurt or heal (Myrna Lapres - February 26, 2024 pdf)

I am a Lighthouse - Beaming and telegraphing information all the time (Myrna Lapres - March 4, 2024 pdf)

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