Joseph Fielding Smith, Ch. 16, "Bringing Up Children In Light & Truth"

  We are all teachers at sometime in our lives. It can be as we raise a family or when we teach as Grandparents or in the church as Missionaries or in other auxiliaries of the Church. Teaching is fundamental to building Heavenly Father's kingdom. Heavenly Father as given us many opportunities to see how He feels in regards to His children. There is the "Proclamation to the World", numerous scriptures that are aimed at the family and the lesson for this Sunday. We have been given and been warned of the importance that is placed on us as we love and teach His children. Please come with your hearts open to hearing and learning and receiving how to bring up your children in light and truth

The Lord said in a revelation given to the Church in 1831:

“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 the hands, when eight years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents.

“For this shall be a law unto the inhabitants of Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized.” [D&C 68:25–26.]

… The Lord requires this at our hands.

Love,

Karen Armstrong