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Annual Family Expo at BYU April 3-4 to advise, strengthen parents

Brigham Young University will host the annual Family Expo Monday and Tuesday, April 3-4, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the BYU Conference Center.

Individual registration for the conference is $70 and registration for credit is $168. Married couple registration is $105; student registration is $5 and is available only by calling (801) 422-8925. Tuition costs for this conference may be covered by university benefits for eligible BYU employees and their spouses.

Free parking is available at the Conference Center, located northeast of the Marriott Center on the BYU campus.

For registration and a schedule of events, visit familyexpo.byu.edu or call (801) 422-8925.

The event's theme, “By Small and Simple Things Are Great Things Brought to Pass,” reflects the conference’s purpose of strengthening families and teaching parents how to raise a righteous posterity.

Speakers—including Elder Merrill C. Oaks, a former member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Josephine Ann C. Oaks, Mary Ellen Edmunds, John Bytheway, Paula Fellingham, Mindy Gledhil and Daniel K. Judd—will discuss topics such as the overextended family, the second-mile family, the blessings of obedience, the dangers of overzealousness, humor in the home and how to teach and show kindness in the home.

BYU's Family Expo is sponsored by the School of Family Life, Religious Education, the Alumni Association and the Division of Continuing Education.

Writer: Brian Rust

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