100 Nuggets of Wisdom

This little test will blow your mind!

Funny: 20 Students were asked "Whats the Laziest Thing You've Ever Done?"

Star Trek Thought on Human Nature

James T. Kirk: "There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that's not who we are... When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain's Oath. Words I didn't appreciate at the time. But now I see them as a call for us to remember who we once were and who we must be again. And those words: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before."

Sacredness of the House of the Lord

When asked why we do not allow anyone to freely enter the temple, this quote seems to enlighten the subject on the matter.

"We are not disposed to hide it from the world, but that, following the dedication, we shall regard it as being of so sacred a nature that purity of life and strict adherence to standards of the Church become qualifications for admittance."
-Pres Hinkley

Case Study: Do I Stay or Do I Go?

I have had many interesting boyfriends in my life. I waited for a missionary and it ended up not working out and it caused me a lot of grief. Then I started dating a boy up at BYU-I while attending school. We had dated for almost a year and I have felt that he was perfect. I couldn’t figure out why he hadn’t proposed. When I finally got brave enough to ask him why, he would always avoid the question. Then one day he said that we needed to go to the temple and pray about getting married. So we went separately and my answer was yes. He called me and told me his answer was no, not yet. I was puzzled by his answer. Then one day while at work he called me and asked me to check his email for a file he needed. When I did I found pornographic emails in one of his folders. Sure those emails come through the junk folder but he had a separate folder which he saved them in. I instantly called him out on it and he confessed to having a pornography problem before his mission and then had gotten back into it after he came home. I knew that this was a HUGE deal. Families are destroyed over something like this. I didn’t know if I should run from the relationship or try to help him. Because he had gotten back into it after his mission that showed that he had the potential to go back into it again if he ever quit. Was he a lost cause, could I risk my future family for this guy?

Case Stuy:Susan Moulton Moves to Utah

After four years in California, your husband, Brandon, has taken a job in Salt Lake Valley. You were able to sell your comfortable, 1800-square-foot house for over $350,000, netting nearly $170,000 you can use as down payment on your Utah home.


You have one boy, age 4, and two girls, ages 7 and 9. They are with your mother in St. George while you make an exploratory buying trip. As the agent shows you houses, you realize that housing in Utah is much less expensive than California. Your down payment and credit screening authorize a loan of almost half a million dollars. In the Utah market, that buys a lot of house.


Brandon insists the larger home is within your budget. Your down payment of 30% means you will not have to pay any PMI (private mortgage insurance). Tax assessments in the area are 1.29% and an agent has estimated insurance on a $500,000 home at $68 per month. Given Brandon’s salary of $150,000/year and interest rates of 5.3 % APR for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, he thinks you can make the payments. He also thinks you will qualify on the 33/38 debt ratio, since you have no credit card debt, only an auto loan of $259 per month and a student loan of $123 per month. If this sounds like gibberish to you, you will need to do some research. Use the Internet to read about tax assessments and the 33/38 debt ratio. You’ll also need to locate a mortgage calculator.


Even if you can afford the house, you are uncomfortable with so much house. You plan on having at least two more children, but the homes you are visiting have five and six bedrooms, with footage of almost 5200 square feet. These houses also have huge garages, and many have special-interest rooms for home theaters or exercising. By comparison, you recall the average gymnasium playing floor is 7500 square feet. You also recall that a small LDS ward building averages 15,000 square feet and a stake center, 24,000. It concerns you to think you might have a home a third the size of a ward building. That being said, you do admit to wanting a large kitchen, laundry room, and great room where the children can bring their friends.


A part of the issue is income--you could buy a smaller house and have a smaller mortgage. A more significant concern is your feelings about stewardship. You remember your missionary years in Honduras, when you worked with faithful members of very modest incomes. Most of them raised faithful families in houses smaller than the garages you are seeing in Utah. In some cases, you taught investigators in shanties cobbled together of plywood and corrugated sheeting. At district meetings you also met missionaries from several South American countries. They often talked about their hopes of an education which might be possible with help from the Perpetual Education Fund. You have thought about this enough to study the PEF on the Internet; you have discovered that education made possible by the PEF increases average income by 326%. You also discover that the Church is involved in a number of other sustained humanitarian projects in third-world countries. These include clean water initiatives, measles vaccinations, neonatal resuscitation training, vision treatment, and sourcing of wheelchairs. In addition, you discovered several reputable organizations which sponsor microcredit—small loans (usually less than $300) which allow individuals in impoverished countries to start small businesses which pay back the loan. The affluence and busyness of your California years finalized your resolve to help others in poorer countries. You approach Brandon about buying a less expensive home and using more of your resources to help others.


When you discuss this with your husband, he reminds you of his home town in Oregon. His ward was small, but the youth were close. He fondly recalls Brother Johnson, a member of the ward who had a large home which he made freely available to the ward. Many of your husband’s friendships were forged at firesides and youth activities in Brother Johnson’s home. Your husband also remembers feeling reassured by Brother Johnson’s financial independence; he was self-reliant, but generous with his resources.


You would like a house that would bless the ward and provide an inviting place for your children’s friends, but you are uneasy with buying more than you need. Last night, when you talked to your children on the phone, the girls begged for a house where they would have their own rooms.


What do you do?

Case Study:Kitty Genovese

It was just after 3 a.m.

A red Fiat rolled slowly through the darkness into a parking space adjacent to the Long Island Rail Road station in Kew Gardens. The young woman behind the wheel emerged from the car and locked it. She began the 100-foot walk toward her apartment house at 82-70 Austin St. But then she spotted a man standing along her route. Apparently afraid, she changed direction and headed toward the intersection of Austin and Lefferts Boulevard -- where there was a police call box. Suddenly, the man overtook her and grabbed her. She screamed. Residents of nearby apartment houses turned on their lights and threw open their windows. The woman screamed again: ``Oh, my God, he stabbed me! Please help me!''

A man in a window shouted: ``Let that girl alone.'' The attacker walked away. Apartment lights went out and windows slammed shut. The victim staggered toward her apartment. But the attacker returned and stabbed her again. ``I'm dying!'' she cried.

Windows opened again. The attacker entered a car and drove away. Windows closed, but the attacker soon came back again. His victim had crawled inside the front door of an apartment house at 82-62 Austin St. He found her sprawled on the floor and stabbed her still again. This time he killed her.

It was not until 3:50 that morning -- March 13, 1964 -- that a neighbor of the victim called police. Officers arrived two minutes later and found the body. They identified the victim as Catherine Genovese, 28, who had been returning from her job as manager of a bar in Hollis. Neighbors knew her not as Catherine but as Kitty.

Kitty Genovese: It was a name that would become symbolic in the public mind for a dark side of the national character. It would stand for Americans who were too indifferent or too frightened or too alienated or too self-absorbed to ``get involved'' in helping a fellow human being in dire trouble. A term ``the Genovese syndrome'' would be coined to describe the attitude.

Detectives investigating Genovese's murder discovered that no fewer than 38 of her neighbors had witnessed at least one of her killer's three attacks but had neither come to her aid nor called the police. The one call made to the police came after Genovese was already dead. Assignment Questions: 1. What are some reasons you think that 38 people essentially did nothing? 2. If you believe they should have done something – why?

Case Study:Immigration #2

Jason’s Illegal Immigration Case

In 1991 I received a mission call to the Budapest Hungary mission but with special instructions to labor in Romania. Three months prior to my call, the Romanian people had begun a revolution that resulted in the assassination of their Romanian dictator. Following a two-month training period at the Provo MTC, I flew with eight other elders to Budapest ,Hungary, to meet with our Mission President.

Directly after we arrived, the Mission President interviewed each of us. During my interview he said, “Currently there are three elders in the capital city of Bucaresti, Romania. Tomorrow when you fly to Romania, I want you to meet with those three, board the train, and travel to the city of Ploiesti with a population of 250,000. I want you to officially open that city for missionary work. I have three instructions-- first, find a place to live; second, find some food; and third, find and baptize a branch president. I’ll wait to hear of your progress via telephone in 30 days.”

Those were my instructions, so off we went. Within three days of our arrival to the city of Ploiesti, we received a telephone referral from the mission office. (*Note: the mission office was located in Budapest, Hungary, the next country over).

The next day we went to the address on the referral sheet; and as we approached the door, we heard someone yelling in Romanian. I took one look at my companion and said that we should probably come back another time, but my companion boldly knocked on the door. The door flung open and the entire doorway was filled with a very large man in a Speedo talking on the telephone who looked at us with an expression of surprise mixed with anger.

I thought to myself—Great! This man is now going to kill us. To my relief he handed the telephone to my companion. On the other end of the telephone was his oldest son who had recently escaped from Romania to Germany, had found the missionaries, and converted to the gospel. He was calling to tell his father about his “new” religion and to inform him that if the Church was ever allowed to enter the country of Romania, two young men in suits would knock at his door.

The man clothed himself and we began the first discussion. Within three weeks this man, Mihail Blegeanu, and his family of four became the first members of the city of Ploiesti. We held sacrament meetings in our apartment for the first three months until the little branch grew. After six months the branch had 30 members, and I was called to serve as the Branch President with special instructions to train Mihail to become the next Branch President.

I served in this capacity for one year; thus, Mihail and I grew to become the best of friends. Mihail was tenacious with the gospel and personally responsible for bringing hundreds of new converts. One month after the completion of my mission service, Mihail, his wife, and 30 other members were flown to Utah to receive their ordinances in the Temple. I was asked to help Mihail and his wife through the ceremony by acting as a translator. Following the ceremonies and the sealings, we then translated the ceremony into the Romanian language for the other members. This was a small miracle as the country of Romania was still governed by an underground network of residual communists, and leaving the country as a Romanian was nearly impossible.The Church provided substantial collateral to ensure that each Romanian member would return to the country after the completion of the temple work. Following the temple experience we parted ways and, because this occurred in the days prior to e-mail and cell phones, our communication was limited to handwritten letters.


About eight years later, my telephone rang at 2 a.m. Mihail Blegeanu called me to explain that he had secured passage to America but needed $800. He said that his life was in danger and that the American embassy had ignored his petitions, so he had gone through “other” avenues. He reminded me of his life before his baptism.

During the revolution Mihail and five friends stormed the communications tower in the city of Ploiesti, fending off security guards (remember, the man was very large) and overtaking the communications tower. They then broadcast throughout the entire country that the revolution had begun.

After the revolution and the assassination of the dictator and after the missionaries had entered the country, the Romanian people held their first democratic vote. Ironically, the dictator that was next in line was voted as the new president. This resulted in a fully functional communistic government under the mask of democracy.

Mihail explained that recently the network had discovered the identity of those who had stormed the embassy and that four of his five friends had been found dead throughout the city of Poliesti in dumpsters. He needed the money for him and his family to leave the country.

My mind quickly flashed to my mission experiences. I remembered being fed by this family when we were half starved because of the lack of food and the lack of knowhow to prepare food. Romania was a third-world country, and finding and preparing food became a daily challenge for us. The Blegeanu family gave when they didn’t have to give. I remembered his tenacity in bringing hundreds of Romanians to the gospel and his endless service as Branch President.


The question -- should I wire him the money?

The Church has recently issued the following statement with regard to its policy on illegal immigration: Around the world debate on the immigration question has become intense. That is especially so in the United States. Most Americans agree that the federal government of the United States should secure its borders and sharply reduce or eliminate the flow of undocumented immigrants. Unchecked and unregulated, such a flow may destabilize society and ultimately become unsustainable.

As a matter of policy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages its members from entering any country without legal documentation and from deliberately overstaying legal travel visas. What to do with the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants now residing in various states within the United States is the biggest challenge in the immigration debate.

The bedrock moral issue for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is how we treat each other as children of God. The history of mass expulsion or mistreatment of individuals or families is cause for concern especially where race, culture, or religion are involved. This should give pause to any policy that contemplates targeting any one group, particularly if that group comes mostly from one heritage.

As those on all sides of the immigration debate in the United States have noted, this issue is one that must ultimately be resolved by the federal government. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is concerned that any state legislation that only contains enforcement provisions is likely to fall short of the high moral standard of treating each other as children of God. The Church supports an approach where undocumented immigrants are allowed to square themselves with the law and continue to work without this necessarily leading to citizenship.

In furtherance of needed immigration reform in the United States, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints supports a balanced and civil approach to a challenging problem, fully consistent with its tradition of compassion, its reverence for family, and its commitment to law.


The question remains -- should I wire him the money?

Case Study:Obscene Art

Recently a piece of art on campus was stolen. The piece was found in a faculty member’s office. When asked about the painting, the faculty member said the piece was offensive and inappropriate for BYU-I, so the faculty member removed it from general view taking care not to damage it in any way.

In response, to help the campus community better understand the purpose of art at BYU-I, the school decided to revisit the criteria by which art is selected. You have been asked to join the committee that oversees the selection art work (including, but not limited to, plays, music, sculpture, film, paintings) to be performed or displayed on the BYU-Idaho campus. As part of your committee responsibilities, you have been asked to draft specific criteria against which current and future works can be judged.

Your committee has been asked to include specific criteria or guidelines that can be used to determine what is or is not considered inappropriate or “obscene.” Your criteria should address content, context, and form. Content refers to what is being displayed or performed in the work. Context refers to when and why the piece was created as well as where it will be displayed. Form refers to the materials from which the piece was made or the style or genre of the piece. Create two lists: criteria for artwork which is not acceptable on campus, and criteria for artwork which is appropriate for campus art and performances. For example, if your criteria were to specify no pornographic or graphically sexual subject matter, it would then need to specify what constitutes “pornographic or graphically sexual.”

Case Study:In Vitro Fertilization

Dan and Melissa have been married for six years and have experienced difficulty starting a family. Their most recent trial was a second tubal pregnancy with accompanying medical complications that almost ended Melissa’s life. Although warned by their doctor of the possibility of another miscarriage, they purchased baby clothes and a new crib and even started painting the baby’s room before the miscarriage. Emotionally, this second loss has been especially difficult for Melissa, primarily because it occurred so soon after their struggles with adoption. Last year, Dan and Melissa met with the adoption agency. They were matched with a 2- year-old boy of Nez Perce heritage. He was placed in their home immediately while they waited for the adoption to be finalized. Dan and Melissa instantly fell in love with the little boy, whom they decided to name Sam. However, their excitement was short-lived. A few weeks later, they were informed they could not adopt the boy after all. Due to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, which gives Indian tribes legal rights in the placement of Indian children, and because Dan and Melissa were Caucasians, the Nez Perce tribe decided to prevent adoption into a home outside of their culture.

Shortly thereafter, Dan and Melissa were offered the opportunity to adopt a Caucasian child through LDS Social Services. Because the adoption was from another state and there were questions as to the legal rights of the biological mother, the adoption could fall through. If successful, it would not be finalized for at least one year. After their experience of losing Sam, Dan and Melissa decided to abandon adoption in favor of trying to conceive a child of their own.

Because of their difficulties with natural conception, Melissa was referred to a clinic that performs in vitro fertilization (IVF). As explained by her doctor, the process of IVF consists of 5 steps. Step 1 is stimulation of the ovary by drugs to produce multiple eggs, step 2 is egg retrieval, step 3 is fertilization of the eggs in the laboratory, step 4 is the transfer of the resulting embryos into the uterus, and step 5 is pregnancy. The doctor also advised Melissa to freeze and store the “extra” embryos, or the embryos that were created by fertilization but not implanted on the first attempt at conception. The doctor explained that most couples only have a 25-50% probability of a live birth per IVF procedure and, in the event of a failed pregnancy, will most likely want to attempt another transfer. However, because the process is time consuming, emotionally draining, expensive, and difficult on the woman’s body, minimizing the number of such procedures is medically wise. This is an attractive alternative for both Melissa and Dan, but both have reservations. Reservations include safety of the mother, LDS doctrine and the fate of the extra embryos.

Case Study: Immigration

Tito Valdez came to the United States of America from Honduras in 1984. When he arrived he was 19 years old. He came here illegally by sneaking across the border from Tijuana to San Diego. He paid $750.00 to Coyotes who brought him across. His family in Honduras was living in abject poverty; they lived in what is called a “villa,” which is a collection of cardboard and corrugated steel shelters. The shelters have dirt floors and there is no running water or electricity. The land that they live on is government land and they do not pay anything to live there. His mother and father have six children and Tito is the oldest. There was no honorable work for Tito in Honduras. There was work available, but it involved being a member of a gang, or in other illegal activities. In addition, Honduras was experiencing political turmoil as one corrupt government changed to another. There was violence and oppression everywhere. Tito and his family raised the $750.00 to pay the Coyotes by selling things they had, going into all their savings, and asking relatives for donations and loans. Everyone’s hope was that Tito could find employment in the US to make enough to be able to help the family in Honduras. Tito did not have many specific skills, but he was willing to work from sunup until sundown to do whatever was asked of him. His family was religious and they had taught him the value of work and honesty. With all his heart he wanted to help his family. He knew that, in some ways, he was their only hope and he did not want to let them down.


In Los Angeles he found work as a mason’s helper (a mason is an expert in stone-work like brick, tile, granite, etc.). He made $300.00 per week working between 10-12 hours per day six days a week. He found a 3-bedroom apartment with 7 other illegal immigrants. His part of the rent was $125.00 per month. He carefully budgeted the rest of his expenses and was able to send around $700.00 per month to his family. For them it was the difference between life and death. The family was able to buy food, necessary clothing, and some basic health care for the younger children.


In time, Tito learned the mason’s trade well. His boss gave him more responsibility and noticed that Tito always showed up for work and was always on time. His boss allowed him to drive the company truck to supervise different job sites. He received a wage increase to $500.00 per week. All of the money he received was in cash and there were no deductions from his pay. He increased the amount he sent to Honduras to $1,000 per month and the family related to him that for the first time in years they did not feel they were living on the edge of extinction.


At night Tito went to free classes at the junior college to learn English. He progressed rapidly and even though his English was not great, he could understand and communicate with others. After three years passed, his boss gave him even more responsibility and increased his wages so that he was making around $3,000 per month. He eventually purchased a used truck, got an apartment of his choosing with four others, and was able to increase the amount he sent to Honduras. Tito missed his family, but life in the United States gave him opportunities and freedom that he could not have experienced in his native country. One evening Tito received a call from his younger brother Isidro. Isidro was 20 now and he also wanted to come to the United States. He eventually came and Tito was thrilled to have his “hermanito” (little brother) with him. Isidro started to work for Tito at the masonry job and was doing well. One day, on the job, there was an accident in which Isidro was involved. He received massive injuries and it was determined that he had spinal-cord trauma. Tito did not know what to do and feared taking him to the emergency room for fear that they both would be deported. Finally, other co-workers convinced Tito to immediately take Isidro to the ER or he might have permanent damage or possibly even die.


When they arrived at the ER, they immediately took Isidro in to stabilize him and get a full assessment. One of Tito’s co-workers, who was a U.S. citizen, did not like that fact that Tito, in his view, was using the system. While Tito and Isidro were at the hospital he called the press and alerted them to the fact that Isidro was receiving expensive medical care at taxpayer expense. Before long, there were reporters and others gathered at the hospital protesting the use of taxpayer money to help Isidro.


Once the physicians stabilized Isidro, they informed the hospital administration that to fully take care of Isidro would involve weeks and maybe months of in-patient care in addition to physical therapy and perhaps other surgeries. In all, the doctors said, it would probably cost the hospital between 50-75 thousand dollars. The hospital was under legal obligation to take care of his emergent needs pursuant to IMTALA regulations, but not the long-term obligations. They knew that Isidro was an illegal alien and had no insurance. Certain doctors were pleading with the administration to start care for Isidro or they feared that there would be permanent disability.


What should the hospital do?

Case Study: A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD

Marty Cooper and his wife Kristin had recently moved across country to open a new office for their budding design business. They had purchased a house in a nice area of town. They didn’t know many people and were nervous about this new place since they weren’t close to any family. The local ward seemed cordial, but they didn’t immediately feel a connection with the local members who lived nearby. Many of the member families were retired couples who travelled a lot and were rarely home. To add to their concerns, there weren’t many girls nearby around the same age as their daughter Malia, who just turned 9. But they had felt strongly about moving into the neighborhood and followed that prompting.


Luckily, after a few days in the neighborhood, Malia met a neighbor girl named Sarah who was almost 9. Sarah lived just a few houses down, and quickly the two girls became really good friends. Kristin was pleased to discover that Sarah’s mother, Claire, was an old acquaintance from high school. Kristin had heard from some old school friends a few years back that Claire was a single mother. Kristin was glad to have an old “friend” nearby since the local members of the church hadn’t really reached out to her, and Kristin and Claire instantly felt a connection. What’s more, even though Claire wasn’t a member of the church, she seemed to share all the same standards. Kristin was particularly impressed with how Claire talked about her family prayers and about how inappropriate some of the shows on TV had been for her daughter. Claire seemed to trust Kristin as well and had her watch Sarah while she went into town to run some errands. Claire had done the same for Kristin on many occasions.


Claire worked from home and shared her house with another high school friend, Pat. Pat worked a lot but seemed nice enough, and Claire spoke highly of her. Kristin vaguely remembered Pat and felt that it was great that she could help Claire out. She found it comforting that Pat also shared the same core values as Claire. Because of the move and settling in, Marty and Kristin had forgotten that they had promised to deliver speeches/presentations at a design conference on Saturday and would need to find a babysitter for Malia from 5am until 8pm. They had thought if they couldn’t find anyone that they would just bring Malia along, but the conference coordinator had called to reminded them that the event was to be held in a Casino sono children were allowed. The coordinator also mentioned that if they had to cancel they would need to return the $2400 installment payment they had received for agreeing to participate, not to mention all the great exposure they were going to receive for their new business by presenting. Everyone else they knew who might be able to babysit seemed to be busy or out of town as this was a holiday weekend. They thought they were going to have to cancel, but luckily, Claire was going to be in town that weekend and agreed to watch Malia while they were gone. Problem Solved.


But then, late Friday night before the conference, after a day of playing with Sarah, Malia came home and exclaimed, “Mom! I saw Sarah’s mom kissing Pat just like you and Dad kiss. Sarah says that both of them are her moms. At first I thought that it was weird, but don’t worry, she said they are lesbian and that it is OK.” Marty and Kristin sat Malia down and tried their best to help her understand what she saw. They tried to call Claire to find out more but weren’t able to reach her on the phone. The lights were out at Claire and Pat’s home, so they assumed they were either out or had retired for the evening. Just then the Relief Society president, who lived a few houses down from them, called from out of town to finally welcome the Coopers into the ward and to ask Kristin to teach a lesson on Sunday. Kristin mentioned what had happened hoping to find out that it was a misunderstanding.


The Relief Society president told Kristin that Claire was indeed lesbian but wasn’t surprised that she hadn’t mentioned it. She then informed Kristin that Claire is a leader of the Same-Sex Marriage Coalition planning to place a measure on the ballot to change the current definition of marriage to include same-sex unions. Claire had been featured on their website with strong opinions and felt that the world needed to “grow up” and realize that same-sex couples are just as real as traditional couples.


They will show the same appropriate public affection and will live the same life whether their communities like it or not. Claire had also expressed that they didn’t need to publicize their sexuality just as heterosexual couples didn’t publicize or push theirs. The R.S. President explained that their children are not allowed to play at Sarah’s house, but that Sarah can play at theirs. They felt they didn’t want their children to be exposed to that lifestyle. The R.S. President apologized there wouldn’t be any ward members available to watch Malia. She then asked Kristin if she planned on letting Claire watch Malia now that she knew Claire was lesbian and their daughter might be exposed to that lifestyle at such an impressionable age. Kristin did her best to avoid the question and hung up the phone. She turned to her husband with a look of, “Now what?” Marty quickly logged onto the website and confirmed everything the Relief Society President had told them. Marty was concerned that Claire had expressed a disregard for others’ views by stating she would show appropriate public affection “whether they liked it or not.” Kristin nodded in agreement but mentioned that Claire and Pat seemed to share many of the core standards they did except this lifestyle choice. They were definitely concerned that Malia had come home with the idea that being lesbian was “OK.” Marty felt that they should consider cancelling on the conference so they could take the time to speak with their neighbors and reach an understanding. He felt this was more important than a presentation at the conference. Kristin was very nervous about this idea since the economy was already doing so poorly, and they didn’t have a lot of new business coming in. The Conference would be the perfect push for their new business. Marty agreed but still felt uncomfortable with the new information he had learned.


Marty and Kristin can cancel on the conference; the event coordinator had made this clear, but by cancelling, they will lose the fees they were paid, not to mention the chance for all the great publicity as a new business in the area. The conference made it clear that no children were allowed at the event location. It is most likely too late to call a sitting service and everyone that could have watched their daughter is out of town.


Please answer the following question. Please fill-out the Decision Making Model Worksheet to show how you arrived at your decision: 1. Should Marty and Kristin allow Claire to watch their daughter on Saturday? Why or Why not? Imagine that you are the parent in this situation. What would you do?