Family Gems: Parents Should Establish Righteous Dominion in the Home

Gems on the Family Parents Should Establish Righteous Dominion in the Home
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“To instill order in our homes, parents should be in charge and exercise parental authority in righteous dominion and establish acceptable standards of behavior for their children, setting limits and adhering to them consistently. They are to teach and guide their children ‘by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; by kindness, . . . reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love.’ (D&C 121:41-43.) Parents then will earn the respect of their children, and children will honor their parents, unifying families.”

Topic: parents

(Joseph B. Wirthlin, “Spiritually Strong Homes and Families,” Ensign, May 1993, 71)