“Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and
righteousness.”
~The Family: A Proclamation to the World
In the article “Parenting with Love, Limits, and Latitude, ”
authors Craig H. Hart, Lloyd D. Newell, and Julie H. Haupt said these elements
should be based upon each child’s individual needs:
- · Love, warmth, and support
- · Clear and reasonable expectations for competent behavior
- · Limits and boundaries with some room for negotiation and compromise
- · Reasoning and developmentally appropriate consequences and punishments for breaching established limits
- · Opportunities to perform competently and make choices
- · Absences of coercive, hostile forms of discipline, such as harsh physical punishment, love withdrawal, shaming, and inflicting guilt
- · Models of appropriate behavior consistent with self-control, positive values, and positive attitudes
President Gordon B. Hinckley said, “Every child is entitled to grow up in a home where there is warm and
secure companionship, where there is love in the family relationship, where
appreciation one for another is taught and exemplified, and where God is
acknowledged and His peace and blessings invoked before the family alter.”
Elder Oaks said, “If anyone thinks that godly or parental
love for an individual grants the loved one license to disobey the law, he or
she does not understand either love or law.” This like when people think that
they can do whatever they want because they only live once and tomorrow they
die. There are laws to abide by and love to be shared. We are grateful for Christ’s
sacrifice that we might be able to repent. It is important to teach our
children why there are rules to abide by and their purpose for growth.
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