GEMS-Family: Parents Should Establish Righteous Dominion in the Home

Parents Should Establish Righteous Dominion in the Home

“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)