Textbook Ch. 10 pg.105
Brigham Young suggested, "Parents should never drive their children, but lead them along, giving them knowledge as their minds are prepared to receive it. Chastening may be necessary betimes, but parents should govern their children by faith rather than by the rod, leading them kindly by good example into all truth and holiness."
Thoughts:
Keep your perspective clear when raising children. Remember that you are not just taking care of a child but you are teaching and rearing them to some day become Gods and Goddesses. Keep an eternal outlook.
Textbook Ch. 10 pg. 108
President Ezra Taft Benson counseled parents, "Take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, play with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend uncrushed one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children."
Textbook Ch. 10 pg. 111
President Joseph F. Smith counseled, "Use no lash and no violence, but...approach them with reason, with persuasion and love unfeigned... The man that will be angry at his boy, and try to correct him while he is in anger, is in the greatest fault;... You can only correct your children by love, in kindness, by love unfeigned, by persuasion, and reason."
Give your children the chance to decide for themselves. Don't just always tell them no. Let them hear your thoughts in a rational way and then let them make their own decisions. It will teach them more things than telling them no will.
Textbook Ch. 12 pg. 131
Elder Bruce C. Hafen and SIster Marie K. Hafen explained, "Just as a mother's body may be permanently marked with the signs of pregnancy and childbirth, [ the Savior ] said,' I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands' (1 Nephi 21:15-16) For both a mother and the Savior, those marks memorialize a wrenching sacrifice-the sacrifice of begetting life-for her, physical birth; for him, spiritual rebirth."
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