“Live the
gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you
have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! Don't just
assume your children on their own will somehow get the drift of your beliefs.”
“Try not to compare your children, even if you
think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is
pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she
isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually
for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with
comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough.”
“In such
times as we are in, whether the threats be global or local or in individual
lives, I too pray for the children. Some days it seems that a sea of temptation
and transgression inundates them, simply washes over them before they can
successfully withstand it, before they should have to face it. And often at
least some of the forces at work seem beyond our personal control. Well, some
of them may be beyond our control, but I testify with faith in the living God
that they are not beyond His.”
“When
Christ comes, the members of His Church must look and act like members of His
Church are supposed to look and act if we are to be acceptable to Him. We must
be doing His work and we must be living his teachings. He must recognize us
quickly and easily as truly being his disciples.”
“Our
children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim.
And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that
can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage
in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's
destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the
holder of the bow.”
“God will
send aid to no one more readily than He will send it to a child--and to the
parent of a child.”
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