{"id":11385,"date":"2020-11-09T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/?p=11385"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:27:18","slug":"parenting-direct-blunt-and-ever-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/parenting-direct-blunt-and-ever-hopeful\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting: Direct, Blunt, and Ever Hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This week, for General Conference Odyssey, I came upon a great talk on parenting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/1990\/10\/the-greatest-challenge-in-the-world-good-parenting?lang=eng\">James E. Faust<\/a> was direct, blunt, and ever hopeful in his words, and the words he used from his fellow brethren.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">James E. Faust began his talk with his own opinion:<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life. This is especially so when moral foundations of honor and decency are eroding around us. To have successful homes, values must be taught, and there must be rules, there must be standards, and there must be absolutes. Many societies give parents very little support in teaching and honoring moral values. A number of cultures are becoming essentially valueless, and many of the younger people in those societies are becoming moral cynics.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Spencer W. Kimball:<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn the past, having family prayer once a day may have been all right. But in the future it will not be enough if we are going to save our families.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">What do we really believe prayer can do for us and our families? Can we put Pres. Kimball\u2019s meaning into action in our lives, fully relying on the Lord as we ask for divine direction, protection, and inspiration?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">David O. McKay:<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cParents who fail to teach obedience to their children, if [their] homes do not develop obedience society will demand it and get it. It is therefore better for the home, with its kindliness, sympathy and understanding to train the child in obedience rather than callously to leave him to the brutal and unsympathetic discipline that society will impose if the home has not already fulfilled its obligation.\u201d (The Responsibility of Parents to Their Children, p. 3.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Today, our children aren\u2019t growing up to believe in God. Through learned obedience, they understand that we obey that higher power who exists and watches over us and wants good things for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Neal A. Maxwell:<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThose who do too much\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">for<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0their children will soon find they can do nothing\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">with<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0their children. So many children have been so much\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">done for<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0they are almost\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">done in<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">.\u201d (Ensign, May 1975, p. 101.)\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Elder Maxwell\u2019s poetry, in this statement, is so evident in our day.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Orson F. Whitney:<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere are some great spiritual promises which may help faithful parents in this church. Children of eternal sealings may have visited upon them the divine promises made to their valiant forebears who nobly kept their covenants. Covenants remembered by parents will be remembered by God. The children may thus become the beneficiaries and inheritors of these great covenants and promises. This is because they are the children of the covenant.\u201d (Conference Report, Apr. 1929, pp. 110\u201311.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">My favorite and most hopeful quote of the talk. Are we being taught that our ancestors are watching over us, praying for us, and rooting for our success? Does the power of family covenants offer special protection? How many of us have children who are wandering on paths unknown? 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