Parenting isn't Always Easy

Last Saturday I was listening to a talk in Stake Conference. The whole meeting was centered around the importance of family. The roles of parents, children and husbands and wives. All of the talks were really good, but one stood out more than the others. Maybe because it is close to my heart.

Here is the quote I want to share. I am going to share some feelings afterwords. They aren't doctrine, but I believe them strongly.

"Our responsibility is to love and care for each other"

As Husband and wife we need to love and care for each other, we need to be a strength to one another. We need to support one anothers' growth in the gospel. For each other and our children.

As Parents we need to love and care for our children. No one else can the way we can.

It seems like there has been a lot of awareness on abuse. Both towards children and spouses. This saddens me. People are becoming so selfish and insensitive to the lives of others. It is nothing to torment and kill a child or spouse. I find it hard.

Children are entrusted, by a Heavenly Father who loves them, to us. Now I know He is aware of each of his children, we have been told by a modern day prophet.

President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008): “Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God and that yours is a custodial relationship to them, that He was a parent before you were parents and that He has not relinquished His parental rights or interest in these His little ones. … Rear your children in love, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Take care of your little ones. Welcome them into your homes, and nurture and love them with all of your hearts. They may do, in the years that come, some things you would not want them to do, but be patient, be patient. You have not failed as long as you have tried” (“Words of the Living Prophet,” Liahona, May 1998, 26–27; “Excerpts from Recent Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley,” Ensign, July 1997, 73).

I guess, my thoughts are that as parents, we may be the only ones who are going to stick up for our children. If we don't, no one else will. Sometimes we have to put aside our own fears to help these little ones feel safe and secure, in other words, loved, and cared for. That is our responsibility. If we don't we are letting them down, we are failing them.