The Family Project

Elder Ballard teaches a lot of great information on holding counsels.  Holding counsels with our families can make a huge difference in the love and unity felt between family members. Some notes from the powerpoint we read this week in class give some main points on holding a successful counsel.  This excerpt is from the section on learning from the brethren: Meet weekly, same day each week is a great idea. Everyone receives an agenda for the discussion the night before to prayerfully review. The brethren meet in the temple.  We strive to make our home as peaceful as the temple.  We could make sure we select a place to use each time that has a picture of Christ or the temple in it. Before discussing agenda items, dedicate time to expressing love, concern, and appreciation for one another. Start the meeting in prayer, seeking inspiration. When discussing matters, seek consensus regarding the Lord's will. End with prayer, dedicating your efforts to Him. Enjoy refreshme

Chapter 10: Parenting with love, limits, and latitude: Proclamation principles and supportive scholarship by  Craig H Hart, Lloyd D Newell, and Julie H Haupt This chapter shared great information on the styles of parenting. I especially loved some of the quotes from past prophets of the church: "Parents should never drive their children, but lead them along, giving them knowledge as their minds are prepared to receive it. Chastening may be necessary betimes, but parents should govern their children by faith rather than by the rod, leading them kindly by good example into all truth and holiness."                                                                                                                     ~Brigham Young “I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions toward children will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.”                                     

For this post, I will include a link at the bottom for you to access the video by John Latham on parenting and coercion.  But first, here are my notes from the video: Latham’s “Measure of a Good Parent” Good parents teach their children the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which includes the broad Christian messages of honesty, decency, kindness, love of God and fellowman, and so on. Good parents are living examples to their children of the principles and teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Good parents create within their homes a safe, positive, happy, noncoercive, nonabusive environment that is under parental control, where the consequences for apropriate and inappropriate behavior are well understood by all and are consistently and lovingly applied. Good parents allow their children to exercise their moral agency, then calmly and patiently let consequences do the teaching. Good parents never give up