A Woman's responsibility to Teach

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A Woman's responsibility to Teach

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN. .. mothers, take time to teach your children. Catch the
teaching moments. This can be done anytime during the day -- at mealtime, in
casual settings, or at special sit-down times together, at the foot of the bed
at the end of the day, or during an early-morning walk together. Mothers, you
are your children's best teacher. Don't shift this precious responsibility to
day-care centers or baby-sitters. A mother's love and prayerful concern for
her children are her most important ingredients in teaching her own.

Teach children gospel principles. Teach them it pays to be good. Teach them
there is no safety in sin. Teach them a love for the gospel of Jesus Christ
and a testimony of its divinity. Teach your sons and daughters modesty, and
teach them to respect manhood and womanhood. Teach your children sexual
purity, proper dating standards, temple marriage, missionary service, and the
importance of accepting and magnifying Church callings. Teach them a love for
work and the value of a good education.

Teach them the importance of the right kind of entertainment, including
appropriate movies and videos and music and books and magazines. Discuss the
evils of pornography and drugs, and teach them the value of living the clean
life.

Yes, mothers, teach your children the gospel in your home, at your own
fireside. This is the most effective teaching that your children will ever
receive. This is the Lord's way of teaching. The Church cannot teach like you
can. The school cannot. The day-care center cannot. But you can, and the Lord
will sustain you. Your children will remember your teachings forever, and when
they are old, they will not depart from them. They will call you blessed --
their truly angel mother.

Mothers, this kind of heavenly, motherly teaching takes time -- lots of time.
It cannot be done effectively part-time. It must be done all the time in order
to save and exalt your children. This is your divine calling. (From address
given at a "Fireside for Parents," 22 Feb 1987 President Ezra Taft Benson -
Ten Ways to Spend Time with Children)
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"Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles
ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say
and what we live are the same." Dwan J. Young (November 1983 Ensign, page 86)

"Parents bear the first and greatest responsibility to teach their children
principles of gospel living and good citizenship." Elder M. Russell Ballard
"Standing for Truth and Right" General Conference, October 1997

This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and
eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the
noblest office or calling in the world. She who can paint a masterpiece or
write a book that will influence millions deserves the admiration and the
plaudits of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy,
beautiful sons and daughters, whose influence will be felt through generations
to come, whose immortal souls will exert an influence throughout the ages long
after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or
shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and
the choicest blessings of God. In her high duty and service to humanity,
endowing with immortality eternal spirits, she is co-partner with the Creator
himself. (David O. McKay, _IE_ 1936, 39:269; see also _Gospel Ideals, pp.
453-454)

"If we desire that we shall have influence over our children, so that they
shall grow up with a disposition to love God and keep His commandments, so
that they shall have the spirit of the gospel of Jesus Christ, we must
remember this commandment: 'And again, inasmuch as parents have children in
Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach them not to
understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living
God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands,
when eight years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents.' (D. and C.
68:25) If we desire the Spirit of God, so that we can teach our children and
inspire them, we must obey that law. So with all the requirements that are
made of us as Latter-day Saints." Heber J. Grant "Gospel Standards," p.48

"Parents, would you draw near to each member of your family? Learn to
communicate with God and with one another. Hold family prayer each morning and
evening; have individual prayer. Teach your children to "listen" when they
pray. Learn to listen to your children. It is often true that 90 percent of
our help comes from listening only. Learn to ponder. Take time to meditate."
A. Theodore Tuttle "Improvement Era," June 1970, p.81

"As parents we cannot delegate the responsibility to teach our children.
Certainly our children will have other teachers in the Church and in their
lives, but the primary responsibility for teaching them gospel principles
rests on our parental shoulders."
K. Douglas Bassett "Eternal Families", Chapter 6

"To be a righteous woman is a glorious thing in any age. To be a righteous
woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the Second Coming of
our Savior, is an especially noble calling. The righteous woman's strength and
influence today can be tenfold what it might be in more tranquil times. She
has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home --
which is society's basic and most noble institution. Other institutions in
society may falter and even fail, but the righteous woman can help to save the
home, which may be the last and only sanctuary some mortals know in the midst
of storm and strife." (Spencer W. Kimball)