Disciplining Children
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- Joseph F. Smith, "Love of Mother and Father", Ensign, August 2004
- Reprint of 1910 sermon entitled "Family Government"
- "Use no lash and no violence, but argue, or rather reason ... with these means, if you cannot gain your boys and girls ... there will be no means left ..."
- Interview with Pres. and Sis. Hinckley, "At Home with the Hinckleys", Oct. 2003
- Pres: "I don't believe that children need to be beaten."
- Pres. Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 5th Ed., p.286
- Cited in the Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual, 1996, lesson 21
- "There should [not] be any of us so unwisely indulgent, so thoughtless and so shallow in our affection for our children that we dare not check them in a wayward course, in wrongdoing and in their foolish love for the things of the world more than the things of righteousness, for fear of offending them."
- Wilford Woodruff, Deseret Weekly, June 22nd, 1889, p. 823
- Cited in: Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, Ch. 16, p. 168
- Don't be tyrants.
- Good quote on spanking.
- Scriptural advice on reproach/discipline.
- Betimes - quickly/immediately
- Sharpness - not bluntness or harshness, but with precision. Clear communication is key.
- President Gordon B. Hinckley, "Feed the Spirit, Nourish the Soul", Ensign, Oct. 1998
- Speaks of the need to be guided by the spirit in our efforts to discipline our children.
- Gives a story of a boy who thought his father hated him because of his father's temper.