Eyres on the Road

The Eyres worry out loud in today's episode about the growing trend toward cohabitation in place of traditional marriage. Studies show that marriage relationships produce more satisfaction, more fulfillment, and have a significantly greater chance of permanence than cohabitation relationships. As you listen to today's program, ponder how you can increase the power of commitment in your marriage.

On this episode, the Eyres talk about their newest book and how to get it for free on line. Opening the Door to Family Revelation is a guide for parents to seek and find Divine help in raising their children, and Richard and Linda decided to forgo the usual publishing process and simply make it immediately available for free to all parents everywhere. They discuss why the wrote it and how they cam...

Today on the show, Richard and Linda talk about spiritual stories related to the family--about prayers for children, prayers about family decisions like when to have a baby, prayers about helping children with decisions or with problems. A prayer from an earthly parent to a heavenly parent is a beautifully direct kind of spiritual experience, and our family-related spiritual stories are some of th...

Polls show that while only about 40% of Americans refer to themselves as "Religious", upwards of 80% call themselves "Spiritual." In essence a spiritual person is one who believes in something higher that he or she can connect with. On today's podcast, the Eyres talk about spiritual encounters of the common kind and tell "spiritual stories" of their own, concluding that, for them, the deepest spir...

On today's show, Richard and Linda tell us some stories about personal encounters they have had...at the White House, and with Oprah, Kathy Lee Gifford, and others and how people of real character, even though in the glare of the public eye, manage to maintain strong internal values and family priorities. The bottom line is that whether a person is famous and wealthy or common and unknown, what re...

For many weeks now, the Eyres have been telling personal stories about various aspects of their lives--people they have met, places they have gone, experiences they have had--always related to family, to marriage, to parenting, to grandparenting. But this week they tell a different kind of stories--stories of opposition, of hardship, of tragedy, of fear, of sadness. What did Shakespeare mean when...

The Eyres are casting from Maui today where they are spending time with their two sons who live there and working on some writing projects. This episode is a continuation of the "Prophet Stories" that they began on last week's show--personal stories about interactions they have experienced with spiritual leaders and what they learned about families and relationships from those encounters. The focu...

After bidding goodbye to 2020 and welcoming the fresh start of 2021, Richard and Linda tell some personal stories about interactions with modern day Prophets. Richard indicates that when he is asked who his heroes are, instead of sports stars or business tycoons, he thinks of holy men of God. Linda agrees that it is spiritual qualities that she admires most. Then the Eyres begin to tell stories of...

In this additional episode of "travel stories" Richard and Linda discuss some special relationship-building travel with just father and sons and with just mother and daughters--and even travel exclusively with in-law children. But before they get into that, the Eyres summarize the challenging year just passed and look forward to 2021.

On today's show, Richard and Linda talk about how all of the classic Christmas stories are about giving and sacrifice. People old and young feel the Christmas Spirit as they give, not as they get. Then the Eyres tell us some personal Christmas Stories about giving, and challenge us all to help our children, for at least part of Christmas, to shift their attention from getting to giving. Illustrati...

Richard and Linda Eyre discuss the value of Christmas stories and traditions, and how traditions can help us feel a sense of security.

In the final episode of their "travel stories," the Eyres advocate traveling more with our children as a way of getting them out of their comfort zone and awakening their sensitivity of other cultures and people. And family travel can actually be economical! During this time when travel is all but impossible, we can all think and dream about the traveling we may want to do when the pandemic ends....

In the second of their three part "travel stories" Richard and Linda tell about the humanitarian expeditions they have been able to experience with their children, and about the perspective and sense of gratitude that third world service can give to kids. Specifically, the Eyres tell stories from their expeditions to Kenya, to the Yucatan, to Bolivia, to India, and to Romania. They have "illustrat...

Today Richard and Linda start a three part mini-series on what they have learned about families, parenting and marriage from their extensive global travel. This episode focuses on travel stories from their speaking and book tours which have taken them to 45 of the more than 100 countries they have visited--and takes us on a virtual tour of presentations in Malaysia, Singapore, Saudi, Vietnam, Duba...

The Eyres didn't get through all the "election stories" they wanted to tell last week, so they continue with Part Two on today's podcast, and this week's stories include Richard's work with President Reagan and his own run for Governor. The thread that runs through all of the stories is the importance of the family as the basic unit of our society, our culture and our economy; and the importance o...

As the U.S. waits for final election results, Richard and Linda tell some personal "election stories" from earlier times and comment on how important it is that all politics and all government recognizes that the FAMILY is the basic unit of society, of culture, of religion, and of our economy. The Eyre's interest in politics goes back to before they were married, and is interlaced with their profe...

On today's show, the Eyres return to their "stories" theme and talk about prayer stories, and how parents often pray in a very special and powerful way, acknowledging the true Heavenly Parent and asking that parent to help in their own "beginning parenthood." Richard and Linda tell their own stories of intense prayers in times of family crisis, and challenge all of us to make this pandemic-time an...

How will we all get together for the Holidays? What would a virtual Thanksgiving Dinner be like, or a Zoom Christmas. Many of us will find out this year. The Eyres, just back from London and the birth of their twin grandchildren, talk on today's show about families in Covid Time, and the joys and trials of staying close mentally and spiritually when you can't be close physically.

Continuing with the "stories" theme of the last few weeks, the Eyres tell us the stories of some of the wild and unusual things they have done with their children during summer vacations. Mostly with the frequent flier miles compiled from their global speaking engagements, Richard and Linda were able to take their kids to live in different cultures, and often in third world situations, in an effor...

Still in England awaiting the birth of their daughter's twins, Richard and Linda reflect on today's show about Joy School and how it became an international phenomenon used by more than half a million families to teach preschoolers the social and emotional joys that make them ready for Kindergarten--and for life. The story actually begins in England where the Eyres were as the initial Joy School c...

Having completed their quarantine, the Eyres have moved from Somerset up to London to be with their youngest daughter who will deliver twins any day now.  So on today's show, they talk about the various times when they have lived in London--as Mission Presidents, and when they went back ten years later so that their younger children could have some of the same British experience and schooling that...

Once again casting from England, the Eyres talk today about their English ancestors, and ancestors in general and how knowing their stories can give us both identity and resilience. Richard and Linda are in quarantine in the Southwest of England, where many of their ancestors lived, and they are using their time there to harvest all they can about those for-bearers and their lives and times. They...

Joining us today from the little village of Batheaston, in Somerset, England, Richard and Linda are in quarantine for 14 days, hoping that their splendid isolation will end at about the same time as their youngest daughter gives birth to her twins in London. So how could they talk about anything today other than baby stories--birth stories--those glorious moments when children from a pre-mortal ex...

Each week for the past year the Eyres have been reviewing the content of one of their 52 books. On today's show, they tell some of their "Book Stories" and get into how they became authors in the first place and how luck or fate (but we would like to call it blessings) led them on a path that resulted in books that sold millions, were translated into more than a dozen languages, and led to a secon...

Lincoln said "Sometimes I am driven to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I have no place else to go." As parents, we often feel this same feeling. Parenting is hard, children are complicated, the world is dangerous and confusing, particularly in this pandemic--and we are driven to our knees because we have nowhere else to go. And this can be a GOOD THING, because an earthly parent prayi...