Don’t Leave the Teaching of our Children to Chance – Wirthlin

“Parents can plant seeds in the hearts and minds of their children only if they know where the children are and what they are doing. Parents should not leave the teaching of their children to chance.” –Joseph B. Wirthlin, Ensign, May 1989, p. 9 Scriptures: The cursing may be upon the heads of your parents, 2 [...]

Doctrines and Principles More Powerful than Rules

“Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.” –Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, Nov. 1999, 79

Train our Children (Joseph F. Smith)

“Let the parents in Zion give their children something to do that they may be taught the arts of industry, and equipped to carry responsibility when it is thrust upon them.  Train them in some useful vocation that their living may be assured when they commence in life for themselves. . . . all in [...]

Knowledge of the Gospel (Grant)

“It is folly to imagine that our children will grow up with a knowledge of the gospel without teaching. . . . I may know the gospel is true, and so may my wife; but I want to tell you that our children will not know that the gospel is true, unless they study it [...]

The Greatest Nursery Leader

The following story was related this past Sunday in church by a good friend of ours, Jess Arbon. After church I asked him if I could share this. He agreed. “When our son Austin started nursery he was pretty reluctant to have anything to do with it. If any of you know him, he is [...]

Slow Dance – Enjoy Life!

“Slow Dance” By David L. Weatherford (Accessible online here: http://www.davidlweatherford.com/slowdance.html) Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round, or listened to rain slapping the ground? Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight, or gazed at the sun fading into the night? You better slow down, don’t dance so fast, time is short, the music won’t last.

I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTsfHEnUIY] (How to Download Video – Direct Video URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTsfHEnUIY) This song has special significance to both the Husband and the Wife in our family!  When ever we have struggled with being parents this song has helped us to remember how we should act with our children, but it has so much more meaning [...]

My Eternal Family

My Eternal Family taken from the 2009 Outline for Sharing Time (Sheet Music) My Eternal Family I am a builder working each day to build my family. And I will do the best I can to serve them lovingly. I am a builder growing so tall and learning everyday. To speak with kindness in my [...]

Adam and Eve Teaching Their Children

(View and Download) The church recently came out with a new gospel art kit with some new pictures in it.  As we browsed through the pictures we saw this one.  It is a picture of Adam and Eve teaching their children and it just spoke to us.  It kind of puts things in perspective as [...]

Mothering

Taken from “I Am a Mother” by Jane Clayson Johnson page 11 The principal business of a mother’s life is loving and nurturing her children; it is teaching them, by example, how to pass on that love and thereby strengthening the world around them.   Through the short time of 7 1/2 years I’ve been [...]

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