“Let me suggest
five things parents can do to create stronger family cultures:
1. Parents can pray in earnest, asking our Eternal Father to help them
love, understand, and guide the children He has sent to them.
2. They can hold family prayer, scripture study, and family home evenings
and eat together as often as possible, making dinner a time of communication
and the teaching of values.
3. Parents can fully avail themselves of the Church’s support network,
communicating with their children’s Primary teachers, youth leaders, and class
and quorum presidencies. By communicating with those who are called and set
apart to work with their children, parents can provide essential understanding
of a child’s special and specific needs.
4. Parents can share their testimonies often with their children, commit
them to keep the commandments of God, and promise the blessings that our
Heavenly Father promises His faithful children.
5. We can organize our families based on clear, simple family rules and
expectations, wholesome family traditions and rituals, and “family economics,”
where children have household responsibilities and can earn allowances so that
they can learn to budget, save, and pay tithing on the money they earn.”
Elder L. Tom Perry, “Becoming GoodlyParents”, October 2012 General Conference
Read full address here, or watch below.
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