Family Gems: Parents’ Responsibility to Teach Their Children

Gems on the Family
Parents’ Responsibility to Teach Their Children
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“As parents read the newspapers and magazines and see what the world is trying to teach their children, they should become all the more determined that their children not be damaged by such sin and error.
Parents should then provide the home life, the discipline, and the training that will offset and neutralize the evil that is being done in the world. As children learn of the ugly things in the world, they must also learn of the good things in the world and the proper responses and proper attitudes. If parents understand that many children are denied family prayers and spiritual attitudes and proper teaching in their lives, then those parents should redouble their energies and their efforts to see that their own children receive good, wholesome training.”

Topics: parents, teaching

(Spencer W. Kimball, “Train Up a Child,” Ensign, Apr. 1978, 4)