Eyres on the Road

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What's Eyres on the Road about?

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.

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Eyres on the Road episodes:

04.20.2024
DAD MODE!
In this new episode, Richard and Linda interview their son Talmadge about his new book DAD MODE. Tal, a Master of Positive Psychology from U. Penn, and a former college basketball star who now lives in Switzerland with his family,...
04.13.2024
HOW OUR CHILDREN HAVE JOINED OUR CAUSE
Linda and Richard get personal on today's show, and talk about what each of their adult children are doing to strengthen and encourage families. Perhaps the permissible form of pride is the kind we all have for our kids, and...
04.06.2024
3-Generation Family Management
Today the Eyres make a strong appeal for a more inclusive definition of "FAMILY" and suggest that blood really is thicker than water. Conscious, diligent effort to stay connected with parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles and even ancestors is important...
03.30.2024
3-Letter Lesson #35: EZY
The Eyres continue their 3-letter lesson series with the concept of "easy" and the question of whether we should think of our lives as hard or easy and how we can move from one toward the other. For Easter week,...
03.23.2024
CONNECTING to OTHER PARENTS and LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER
How can parents and grandparents work together in a synergistic way for the good of the children? How can we keep ourselves connected with good parenting and grandparenting ideas? The Eyres discuss these questions and point us toward their website...
03.16.2024
BOOKS, PODCASTS, SOCIAL MEDIA, and MENTAL HEALTH
In this episode, Linda and Richard talk about the three books they are currently working on, and reflect on how the role of books has changed in today's world, and been replaced in many ways by podcasts and audible. They...
03.09.2024
If It's IMPORTANT to YOU, It's IMPORTANT to ME
Today the Eyres are at Indian Wells at a tennis tournament and talk about how Linda adopted Richard's love for tennis. The discussion expands to how Richard developed a love for Linda's profession of classical music, and then broadens to...
03.02.2024
WHAT is the BASIC UNIT of SOCIETY?
Richard is flying solo from Phoenix this week on Eyres on the Road while Linda is traveling with her sisters-in-law, so Richard is taking the opportunity to explore some recent public polling data that shows that the individual rather than...
02.24.2024
LOVE MORE!
Today, Richard and Linda turn their discussion to the most important topic of all--love. And they explore the word as a verb and suggest starting the day with the question of "how or who can I love more today." They...
02.17.2024
SPIRITUAL PARADIGM SHIFTS that can CHANGE and CONNECT us
In this episode, the Eyres explore Richard's new article in Meridian Magazine (latterdaysaintmag.com) called Paradigm Shifts on the Road to Exaltation, and discuss how important it is to see religion and faith institutions as support mechanisms for our relationships and...
02.10.2024
EYRESFREEBOOKS.COM
On today's episode, Linda and Richard talk about one of their websites called eyresfreebooks.com where about half of their 60 published books can be found, and read, for free. Once the copyrights and publishing rights revert back to the Eyres...
02.03.2024
Three-Letter Lesson #34: KFB
As the Eyres move into their 14th season (there have now been over 600 podcast episodes) they return to their series on Three-Letter Lessons. KFB represents KNOW, FEEL, and BELIEVE and the discussion is about how these three concepts work...
01.27.2024
BOOKS, MARVELOUS BOOKS
Today's episode is essentially a tribute to books, and Richard and Linda talk about their lifetime love affair with books, quoting Ben Franklin who advocated that a person should always carry two books, the one he is reading and the...
01.20.2024
FAMILIES and MONEY
It's a big subject, but the Eyres zoom in this episode on how parents and grandparents talk (and don't talk) about the financial aspects and lessons of life with children; and about what family systems can be put in place...
01.13.2024
PROPINQUITY
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...
01.06.2024
GRANDPARENTING 101: The TEAM approach to a Joyful 3-Generation Family
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...
12.30.2023
FRAMEWORKS for New Year's RESOLUTIONS
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...
12.23.2023
CHRISTMAS CONUNDRUMS
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....
12.23.2023
CHRISTMAS CONUNDRUMS
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....
12.16.2023
Family CHRISTMAS IDEAS, from the RIDICULOUS to the SUBLIME
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...
12.09.2023
3-Letter Lesson #33: ALN
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...
12.02.2023
THOUGHTS on THE WORLD, and on DEATH
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...
11.25.2023
HOLIDAY TRADITIONS and RITUALS
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,...
11.18.2023
THANKSGIVING and the "GRATITUDE-FORK"
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....
11.11.2023
The MAGIC of BOOKS (and of THANKS-GIVING)
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. ...
11.04.2023
THE VALUE (and the joy) OF POETRY
This episode is about the Eyres' concern that most of us don't read (or write) poetry anymore. In earlier generations, poetry was a key form of entertainment and expression and caused a very different kind of thought than today's...
10.28.2023
3-Letter Lesson #32: WIN
In this episode, the Eyres explore the win-lose culture that we and our kids live in, and discuss the question of how competing and improving and winning can be given a more positive and win-win spin. How can we teach...
10.21.2023
MEDIA STORIES
Yesterday Richard, while traveling, ran into a man who had detailed memories of the TV show the Eyres hosted years ago which was called Families are Forever. It started some thought about some of the unique national and local...
10.14.2023
The FUTURE of FAMILIES and of PUBLISHING
Linda is on an outing with her four daughters and daughters in law this week, so Richard takes the opportunity to interview his good friend and publisher Christopher Robbins and the two of them talk about trends, changes, and the...
10.07.2023
3-Letter Lesson #31: INC
The Eyres continue their 3-letter lesson series (which will become a hybrid book) with INC which is not a corporation but an abbreviation for Inclusive which is what the world needs now and the opposite of the exclusive, divisive, polarizing...
09.30.2023
Sports, Music, and Jobs
In today's episode, Richard and Linda get into their own personal love of music and sports and the extensive efforts they see parents putting in to get their kids to all the teams and lessons and extracurriculars they are involved...
09.23.2023
Three-Letter Lesson #30: SEE
Today, the Eyres get back into their Three-Letter Lesson series and talk about an expanded view of the word SEE. Can we look harder, notice more, become more aware of beauty, of people, of situations, and even of the Divine....
09.16.2023
(Rerun from 05/28/22) UNITY in Families
(Rerun from 05/28/22) After a family week in Costa Rica and a few days in LA for Richard's national tennis tournament, the Eyre's are casting today from Phoenix where their granddaughter's high school graduation. They are joined on today's...
09.09.2023
How to LIVE
In this episode, the Eyres begin by talking about their return from New York and their week with family as a granddaughter leaves for a mission in Australia. They then shift to an online seminar Richard is preparing called "How...
09.02.2023
WE ARE KEYNOTING A FREE GRANDPARENT'S CONFERENCE
In this episode, the Eyres talk about the power and recent popularity of three-generation families--of parents and grandparents working together for the good of the grandkids. Richard and Linda will keynote a national online Grandparent's Day conference on September 10...
08.26.2023
WHAT THE HECK IS JOY SCHOOL?
Lots of people have heard of "Joy School" and the Eyres are constantly asked exactly what it is. On today's episode they talk about the origins of "social-emotional learning" and how important it has become in modern education. ...
08.19.2023
UNITY and DIVERSITY
Richard flies solo today and talks about the brand new book that he edited, called NO DIVISION AMONG YOU. He feels like the polarization--and the "five D's" that go with it: discord, division, dissension, dismissal, and disrespect, are tearing...
08.12.2023
Three-Letter Lesson #29: W&P
The 29th installment in their ongoing series on "3-letter lessons" is the dual success formula "W&P" which on the temporal level is WORK AND PLAN, involving setting goals, creating plans, and working to achieve our own ends. But the...
08.05.2023
AI vs. FAITH
In today's episode, the Eyres tackle the question of whether AI is our friend or foe, of whether Artificial Intelligence can control us, can develop intimate relationships with us, and can eventually destroy us. Richard and Linda juxtaposition the...
07.29.2023
Three-Letter Lesson #28: WHO
Today the Eyres return to their series on 3-letter lessons--simple three letter "word-pegs" that we can think about often and that can influence our priorities and actions. Today's word is the ever-interesting question of WHO. Who are you?...
07.22.2023
OUR FAMILY REUNION JUST ENDED
The Eyres are casting today from Bear Lake where their annual reunion is just concluding, and they are looking back over the chaos, confusion, learning and beauty of having all their kids and grandkids together in one confined space for...
07.15.2023
(Rerun from 10/15/22) Three-Letter Lesson #17: AGE
(Rerun from 10/15/22) In this new episode, Richard and Linda continue their series of three-letter concepts, and focus on our attitudes toward AGE, which is perceived so differently in various parts of the world. Then they drill down to...
07.08.2023
EYRES IN ENGLAND
Richard and Linda are casting from London today, from the small Surrey village called Epsom where they lived for four years--three as Mission Leaders for their Church, and another year ten years later where they wrote their book Teaching Your...
07.01.2023
UNITY and DIVISION in Our Families
Today, the Eyres introduce us to a new book that Richard has edited, called "No Division Among You." It is a book of 14 essays, by some truly brilliant writers, each taking a stab at the problem of disunity, division,...
06.24.2023
More on the T.E.A.M. approach to Parenting and Grandparenting
Three-generation families matter. Cousin-bonding matters. Family reunions and gatherings matter. Listening and communicating across generations matters. In today's episode, the Eyres expand on their T.E.A.M. approach to families. Work together on the Trunk that connects branches to roots, the...
06.17.2023
Three-Letter Lesson #27: S&N
On this episode, the Eyres return to their on-going series on three-letter lessons to absorb and live by. S&N stands for Straight and Narrow, a phrase that can sound restrictive and confining but that is actually freeing and the...
06.10.2023
A Recommended Book for Summer Reading
On today's episode, the Eyres talk about the recent death of one of Linda's life-long best friends, and the wish she shared with Linda the week of her death--that a cherished book she had written could be published. That dream...
06.03.2023
How the THREE DECEIVERS Damage FAMILIES
In today's show, the Eyres conclude their 5-part mini-series on the problems caused by the "three deceivers" of CONTROL, OWNERSHIP and INDEPENDENCE and the beautiful solutions of their beautiful alternatives of SERENDIPITY, STEWARDSHIP, and SYNERGICITY. Perhaps the biggest tragedy of...
05.27.2023
(Re-run from 09/17/22) Proactive Parenting
(Re-run from 09/17/22) Today the Eyre's cast from Balboa and talk about their speaking and workshops in Huntington Beach this week to 500 entrepreneurs who had gathered from around the world to think about and work on their Relationship Skills....
05.20.2023
Making SERENDIPITY, STEWARDSHIP, and SYNERGICITY into SPIRITUAL CONCEPTS
On this episode, the fourth in the Happiness Paradox mini-series, the Eyres take the "three alternatives" to a spiritual level and tie each of them to the quest of seeking God's will. For more detail go to www.Familius.com/Eyre where...

What's Eyres on the Road about?

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Eyres on the Road episodes:

DAD MODE!

HOW OUR CHILDREN HAVE JOINED OUR CAUSE

3-Generation Family Management

3-Letter Lesson #35: EZY

CONNECTING to OTHER PARENTS and LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER

BOOKS, PODCASTS, SOCIAL MEDIA, and MENTAL HEALTH

If It's IMPORTANT to YOU, It's IMPORTANT to ME

WHAT is the BASIC UNIT of SOCIETY?

LOVE MORE!

SPIRITUAL PARADIGM SHIFTS that can CHANGE and CONNECT us

EYRESFREEBOOKS.COM

Three-Letter Lesson #34: KFB

BOOKS, MARVELOUS BOOKS

FAMILIES and MONEY

PROPINQUITY

GRANDPARENTING 101: The TEAM approach to a Joyful 3-Generation Family

FRAMEWORKS for New Year's RESOLUTIONS

CHRISTMAS CONUNDRUMS

CHRISTMAS CONUNDRUMS

Family CHRISTMAS IDEAS, from the RIDICULOUS to the SUBLIME

3-Letter Lesson #33: ALN

THOUGHTS on THE WORLD, and on DEATH

HOLIDAY TRADITIONS and RITUALS

THANKSGIVING and the "GRATITUDE-FORK"

The MAGIC of BOOKS (and of THANKS-GIVING)

THE VALUE (and the joy) OF POETRY

3-Letter Lesson #32: WIN

MEDIA STORIES

The FUTURE of FAMILIES and of PUBLISHING

3-Letter Lesson #31: INC

Sports, Music, and Jobs

Three-Letter Lesson #30: SEE

(Rerun from 05/28/22) UNITY in Families

How to LIVE

WE ARE KEYNOTING A FREE GRANDPARENT'S CONFERENCE

WHAT THE HECK IS JOY SCHOOL?

UNITY and DIVERSITY

Three-Letter Lesson #29: W&P

AI vs. FAITH

Three-Letter Lesson #28: WHO

OUR FAMILY REUNION JUST ENDED

(Rerun from 10/15/22) Three-Letter Lesson #17: AGE

EYRES IN ENGLAND

UNITY and DIVISION in Our Families

More on the T.E.A.M. approach to Parenting and Grandparenting

Three-Letter Lesson #27: S&N

A Recommended Book for Summer Reading

How the THREE DECEIVERS Damage FAMILIES

(Re-run from 09/17/22) Proactive Parenting

Making SERENDIPITY, STEWARDSHIP, and SYNERGICITY into SPIRITUAL CONCEPTS