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Parenting: The Hardest Job, Feelings, Feelings, Natural Consequences, Time…
Parenting: The Hardest Job
Parenting is rewarding
Parents become better people
They become selfless and strong
Parents will discipline their children
They learn good habits
Self-control - parents learn to remain calm
They teach our children
We also weave around our children a protective basket—a vessel called “the family”—and guide them to safe places where our teachings can be reinforced in the home and at church.
Challenges of Parenting
No book to reference to in one or two generations back
Techniques::spanking, punishment, time-out
Keeping kinds under control
Punishment
Puzzle over the great riddle of raising kids
Fear for our children
Like Jochebed, we raise our families in a wicked and hostile world—a world as dangerous as the courts of Egypt ruled by Pharaoh.
Courage
What Parents Need
Faith
Parenting
Hold family council
Leave the door to our hearts open
Liken the scriptures to our hearts
Take advantage of every teaching moments
Trust the good Shephard
"...Pray for your careless and disobedient children; hold on to them with your faith. Hope on, trust on, till you see the salvation of God.”
Elements of
Invite the Spirit through prayer
Study the scriptures
Speak kindly
Show appreciation to another
Fast
Repent
The Lord's Comfort: The eternal sealings of faithful parents and the divine promises made to them for valiant service in the Cause of Truth, would save not only themselves, but likewise their posterity.
We should not let their choices weaken our faith. Our worthiness will not be measured according to their righteousness.
Feelings
Overwhelming
Nerve-wracking
Lose control
Feelings
Great expectations
Thrilling, exciting
Rewarding
Natural Consequences, Time-outs