Parenting

March 25, 2024 03:31 PM MDT
For more than 1,600 years Christians have been documented as celebrating Good Friday. What is this holiday and how can we make it meaningful?
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March 13, 2024 05:00 AM MDT
Here’s how celebrating Holy Week with your children can create spiritual memories to last a lifetime.
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February 23, 2024 07:16 AM MST
How about scripture study by candlelight? Simple ideas for how to help your gospel rituals feel special, maybe even a little magical.
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February 21, 2024 10:41 AM MST
The Apostle also answered the question, “What is the greatest thing you can do for your children?”
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February 12, 2024 01:24 PM MST
Maybe you’re like me and found it bittersweet to send your child on a mission. Here are a few thoughts to bring peace during the pain of saying goodbye.
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February 06, 2024 12:32 PM MST
For me, learning to love life didn’t come naturally and most days, life didn’t feel very fun.
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February 06, 2024 06:00 AM MST
Here are five simple ways I’ve found to communicate my own love to my child that I hope will then help them conceptualize and recognize God’s love, too.
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January 23, 2024 08:30 AM MST
A series of remarkable promptings and experiences led a world-class cellist back to the faith she’d decidedly left more than 20 years earlier.
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January 15, 2024 06:55 AM MST
We may be discouraged when reading of those who are ‘lost’ in Lehi’s vision. But if we examine the context, the vision can actually be a hopeful message.
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January 11, 2024 06:00 AM MST
I think I need “with all the feeling of a tender parent” embroidered on something.
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December 20, 2023 06:00 AM MST
Feeling overwhelmed by everything you need to do during the holiday season? Here are a few ideas to help ditch the guilt and find the joy.
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December 08, 2023 02:04 PM MST
God gave me a late-night thought that led to my son’s life-changing diagnosis. But I couldn't figure out how I "earned" this significant prompting.
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October 19, 2023 07:39 AM MDT
While missionaries’ challenges are many, our support from home can make a big difference! Here are a few practical ways parents and friends can help.
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October 06, 2023 07:29 AM MDT
Family history may sound intimidating, but there are a few simple ways to slip it into your spiritual diet.
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Fun
September 05, 2023 05:12 PM MDT
For Dan, finding his old Mustang is ‘truly a blessing.’
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August 24, 2023 07:00 AM MDT
Sister Aburto’s sincere reply was, ‘Your love for your boys is a beautiful motive for you to come. I am grateful to have you among us.’
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July 27, 2023 03:09 PM MDT
When Renee White’s then-18-month-old son, Eli, started throwing tantrums, she was shocked—not by her toddler’s behavior, but her own. She has since been on a journey to become a peaceful parent.
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Fun
July 12, 2023 07:00 AM MDT
In our home, “Bluey” reigns supreme as the favorite TV show. Here are 16 gospel-centered lessons we found on this fun and uplifting program.
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June 13, 2023 01:28 PM MDT
"In both my personal and professional opinion, my dad got this fatherhood thing pretty much figured out. Allow me to share seven fatherhood lessons that I learned from him (along with a few of my own thoughts)."
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May 25, 2023 09:10 AM MDT
Read Robert Millet inspiring response to a widow who had been told doing her late husband’s temple work would be a waste of time.
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April 19, 2023 01:53 PM MDT
When we tell our children they can’t play with certain children anymore, we may be unintentionally teaching them that there’s no space for forgiveness and no place for change. As I’ve thought about this, I've learned three truths that I hope can guide parents in similar situations.
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February 27, 2023 08:00 AM MST
These gifts might not be on your missionary’s packing list, but they sure will come in handy in the mission field!
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November 02, 2022 01:45 PM MDT
Courses are taught by experts in their fields and range from how to improve your scripture study to overcoming doubts to talking to your kids about tough topics like pornography.
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October 25, 2022 09:55 AM MDT
“In a world where the adversary wants the youth distracted, discouraged, and discontent it is more crucial than ever for our youth to understand their divine identity and their purpose in Heavenly Father’s plan.”
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October 21, 2022 07:00 AM MDT
It is our privilege and responsibility as parents to plant and to tend the seeds of faith and goodness. But if we become impatient, if we try to force growth or maturity before its time, we may end up hindering the beautiful, natural process of growth.
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October 07, 2022 02:47 PM MDT
Kathryn Davis recently asked her seminary students a simple question: “Do you think your parents know what you face when you walk down the halls of school?”
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October 03, 2022 07:05 AM MDT
Do you have questions about patriarchal blessings? After writing a book on the topic, Keith Erekson might have some answers for you.
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September 26, 2022 04:34 PM MDT
The training allowed me to understand the topic of abuse with a gospel lens, and I was able to apply it when an incident occurred in Primary.
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September 23, 2022 04:13 PM MDT
On July 10, 2015, 16-year-old Cory Swapp took his own life. Here’s why Cory’s mom has been dedicated to teaching other mothers what she wished she would’ve known.
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August 19, 2022 07:00 AM MDT
Millennials are now grown, starting families, working, and settling into their lives as adults. It’s time to focus on learning about a new generation of Church members—Generation Z.
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August 05, 2022 10:00 AM MDT
One of the greatest principles the Church teaches us is to be more self-reliant, which includes increasing our education in all areas of life.
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June 30, 2022 12:00 PM MDT
My toddler makes it hard to have time for spiritual things, but a recent Instagram video helped me feel more confident in my role as a mother and how I’m spending my time.
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June 22, 2022 11:01 AM MDT
It’s not realistic to think your Nursery-aged child will sit still and listen intently for an entire Sacrament meeting. Here are a few ways to help them learn.
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June 17, 2022 01:18 PM MDT
“I knew it would be challenging to raise my daughters without my wife. But I soon found out I wasn’t really on my own.”
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June 17, 2022 09:30 AM MDT
Whether your teen is headed to the school scene, the MTC, or the world of the working, use this list of 10 important skills to make sure they're adequately prepared to fly solo. 
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May 25, 2022 01:08 PM MDT
My 10-year-old pitches a different excuse every week to convince us it’s impossible for him to go to church. And while I want him to be there, the resistance is draining.
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Fun
May 03, 2022 02:29 PM MDT
“Best of all were the funny stories they would tell about their parents—the kind of stories I know parents would not want their children to tell.”
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February 22, 2022 09:18 AM MST
“Your strategic plan is guiding you through major decisions instead of ‘my wants, your wants.’”
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February 17, 2022 08:37 AM MST
In their new book, Tad and Kathryn Callister share gratitude for their parents, who were their prime gospel teachers and examples.
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January 31, 2022 10:00 AM MST
This "His Grace" video is a touching complement to our study of Noah and the Flood this week in Come, Follow Me.
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January 11, 2022 06:22 PM MST
We can approach conversations about serving missions with both encouragement and understanding—even when someone decides not to serve.
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January 05, 2022 05:33 PM MST
“What are you going to teach your children?” President Nelson told Saints in Bolivia. “I would like to suggest you do what the Savior did.”
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March 25, 2021 05:28 PM MDT
The birth of Cameron and Rebecca King’s second daughter isn’t the birth story that most young parents imagine, but it is a story of how the hand of the Lord is always visible, even during hard times.
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February 10, 2021 02:47 PM MST
This article was originally published by LDS Living in May 2019. Find more from Elder Craig A. Cardon in his new book Growing Up Unto the Lord: Recognizing and Responding to the Voice of the Spirit, Living in Peace, and Blessing Generations.
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January 28, 2021 01:50 PM MST
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would have my long-awaited newborn in the middle of the largest global crisis our generation has ever known.”
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A new feature on ChurchofJesusChrist.org makes it easier for Latter-day Saint parents to create and manage their children’s Church online accounts.
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December 08, 2020 01:00 PM MST
There is certainly a lot to teach a child during their most formative years in the home. Here are ten simple, but important, gospel lessons to help parents along their way.
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By  Amy Adams
October 29, 2020 01:39 PM MDT
When my pre-teen son asked for a phone, I wondered if President David O. McKay had imagined the small devices we all carry around each day when he prophesied of scientific “discoveries latent with such potent power, either for the blessing or the destruction of human beings, as to make man’s responsibility in controlling them the most gigantic ever placed in human hands” (in Conference Report, Oct., 1966, 4). Could I hand my innocent son a little phone with more power than the first supercomputer, with all the knowledge of millions of books and world-class entertainment to put in his pocket? Would this bless him? It could. But it could also destroy him.
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August 11, 2020 03:58 PM MDT
Editor's note: “Resources to follow Him” curates study resources, teachings, and thoughts to deepen your study of this week's Come, Follow Me.
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August 05, 2020 10:49 PM MDT
If you have read or had a lesson on the New Testament, chances are you encountered something related to the Pharisees and their rigid adherence to 600+ rules based on the Law of Moses. We often talk about the religious leaders’ unwillingness to accept a higher law and how their litany of laws interfered with their ability to truly live the gospel. But as emeritus General Authority and former Sunday School General President Tad R. Callister points out in a recent article for Church News, Pharisees didn’t just exist in the time of the Savior. Even today, we are at risk of becoming Pharisee-like in our lives and especially in our parenting, when we become too focused on rules instead of principles and don’t give others an opportunity to exercise agency first.
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June 03, 2020 08:55 PM MDT
When children find shiny pennies on the street, they likely aren’t thinking of applying it to their mortgage payment or rent for next month. So how do children learn about financial principles needed as adults?
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