Parenting/Child Family Advocacy Classes

Today I start a new journaling section for my Parenting 220 class and Child and Family Advocacy 460 class.  I will be posting my thoughts on questions asked weekly.

It is important for us to understand that we are agent's, blessed with agency, who can act rather than be acted upon as learners so that we move forward with our learning, and not sit waiting in the process.  We can choose what and how we learn, and be excited about learning instead of just memorizing.
As I choose to learn, I will be better able to interact with the world around me.  It will not just be "things happening to me" but will be me influencing the world around me.
We need to learn to keep our minds active and prepare ourselves to be a positive influence in the world around us.  It will also help prepare us to become God's and Goddesses.  We cannot obtain celestial glory, assigned to create world's, without knowledge and understanding.
We need to learn by seeking and applying it in our daily lives.
At BYU-Idaho, I will be able to seek some of this learning and use it in my daily life, not just pass a class.
In Elder Bednar's talk, Learning to Love Learning, he said we must seek all learning in faith and that not all learning is equal.  We should seek the best learning and apply gospel truths in our lives if we are to become like our Father in Heaven.

As typical college students, we can seek for forgiveness on wrong answers, missed assignments, and failed tests.  This shows we were not concerned with the learning, but more about the grade.  If we want to learn, we put for the effort to understand, which will help us with our grades.

In learning we must have an understanding. In the Private Universe video, we see that even top-notch students didn't understand and learn, or even care, about certain subjects.

While watching the presentation of, "In Memory of Our God, Religion, Freedom, Peace, Wives and Children" I took the following points. 
What can I be doing more to strengthen my family? 
Satan LEADS us away, not something abrupt.
Philosophies of men are mingling with scriptures and we need to be diligent in keeping commandments.