Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children.
There is no substitute for her.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway

Monday, May 2, 2011

31 Days to Better Parenting: Day 2

The Conference talk for today was taken from the April 2010 General Conference. In that conference there were over 30 talks given and almost 1 out of every 3 talks given were about families, parenting or family history. This is obviously a very important topic that the leaders of the Church are very concerned about.

The talk is:
Help Them on Their Way Home by President Henry B. Eyring



My favorite highlights
"[God] wants them to gain early the spiritual strength to stay on the path."

"We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and His restored gospel when they are young. And then we must help rekindle that faith quickly before it dims as they wander off the path."

"Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child;s life to put feet firmly on the path home."

"[Bishops] realize that a strong spiritual foundation can make the difference for a lifetime."

"...because of her example they [the children] learned to feel and recognize the Holy Ghost. And when they did, they were well on their way to the faith to resist temptation."

"Then something came to his memory. He knew he was supposed to pray... And I have been ever grateful he was taught to pray with faith that help would come when he was lost. That faith has led him to safety and brought him more rescuers more times than he can count."

"President Monson put it this way: we must 'learn what we should learn, do what we should do, and be what we should be.' "

"On reflection I realized that the contents of these booklets [Personal Progress for Young Women and Duty to God for the Young Men] are a physical representation of the Lord's trust in the rising generation and in all of us who love them. And I have seen evidence that the trust is well placed."
- The Lord has great faith in and love for the young people in the church.

Sometimes with 3 boys who are very young (4 years, 2 years and 1 year) it is difficult to see how anything is getting through to them. But last night we were reviewing the Book of Mormon story of Abinadi. Even though we haven't talked about that story in a little while he was still able to remember those in the story and point out those people in the picture depicting the story.
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