The Righteous Influence of Mothers
How can mothers fulfill their sacred role of teaching and nurturing their children?
Woman has within her the power of creation in company with her legal and lawful husband here, and if sealed in celestial wedlock, she may have eternal increase in the world to come.
Woman is the homemaker in her own home and an exemplar to her posterity in the generations that succeed her. Woman is an helpmeet to her husband and may render him more perfect than he otherwise would be.
Woman’s influence can bless a community or a nation to that extent to which she develops her spiritual powers in harmony with the heaven-sent gifts with which she has been endowed by nature… year in and year out, she may cast the aura of her calming and refining influence to make certain that her posterity will enjoy the opportunities to develop to their fullest potential their spiritual and physical natures.
Mothers are the creators of the atmosphere in the home and do much to provide the strong foundation for their sons and daughters, to provide them with strength when they leave the influence of their homes.
Mothers, stay at the crossroads of the home.
Today, I feel that women are becoming victims of the speed of modern living. It is in building their motherly intuition and that marvelous closeness with their children that they are enable to tune in upon the wavelengths of their children and to pick up the first signs of difficulty, of danger and distress, which if caught in time would save them from disasters. I say to mothers, if you ever have sons and daughters who amount to what they should in the world, it will be in no small degree due to the fact that your children have a mother who spends many nights on her knees in prayer, praying God that her son, her daughter will not fail. A mother’s heart is a child’s schoolroom. The instructions received at the mother’s knee, and the parental lessons together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul. Someone has said that the best school of discipline is the home, for family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are largely what mothers make them.
What is the mother’s role, then, in the great service of the Kingdom? Her first and most important role is to remember the teaching of the gospel in the family. [I wish to refer to] woman’s place in training her family… The Lord said:
“But behold, I say unto you, that little children are redeemed from the foundation of the world through mine only Begotten;
“Wherefore, they cannot sin, for power is not given unto Satan to tempt little children, until they begin to become accountable before me;
“For it is given unto them even as I will, according to mine own pleasure, that great things may be required at the hand of their fathers.”
D&C 29:46-48
Great accomplishments are required of fathers and mothers before Satan has power to tempt little children. It is the responsibility of the parents to lay a solid foundation by teaching Church standards by example and by precept. To the sisters, this means they must make a career of motherhood. They must let nothing supersede that career. Mothers, when your children begin to ask you questions, even about the delicate things in life, don’t turn them aside. Take time to explain to their childish minds, or as they grow up, to their older minds. A successful mother is one who is never too tired for her sons and daughters to come and share their joys and their sorrows with her.
I pray that the blessings of the Lord will be on you, my beloved sisters.
How can mothers fulfill their sacred role of teaching and nurturing their children?
Woman has within her the power of creation in company with her legal and lawful husband here, and if sealed in celestial wedlock, she may have eternal increase in the world to come.
Woman is the homemaker in her own home and an exemplar to her posterity in the generations that succeed her. Woman is an helpmeet to her husband and may render him more perfect than he otherwise would be.
Woman’s influence can bless a community or a nation to that extent to which she develops her spiritual powers in harmony with the heaven-sent gifts with which she has been endowed by nature… year in and year out, she may cast the aura of her calming and refining influence to make certain that her posterity will enjoy the opportunities to develop to their fullest potential their spiritual and physical natures.
Mothers are the creators of the atmosphere in the home and do much to provide the strong foundation for their sons and daughters, to provide them with strength when they leave the influence of their homes.
Mothers, stay at the crossroads of the home.
Today, I feel that women are becoming victims of the speed of modern living. It is in building their motherly intuition and that marvelous closeness with their children that they are enable to tune in upon the wavelengths of their children and to pick up the first signs of difficulty, of danger and distress, which if caught in time would save them from disasters. I say to mothers, if you ever have sons and daughters who amount to what they should in the world, it will be in no small degree due to the fact that your children have a mother who spends many nights on her knees in prayer, praying God that her son, her daughter will not fail. A mother’s heart is a child’s schoolroom. The instructions received at the mother’s knee, and the parental lessons together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul. Someone has said that the best school of discipline is the home, for family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are largely what mothers make them.
What is the mother’s role, then, in the great service of the Kingdom? Her first and most important role is to remember the teaching of the gospel in the family. [I wish to refer to] woman’s place in training her family… The Lord said:
“But behold, I say unto you, that little children are redeemed from the foundation of the world through mine only Begotten;
“Wherefore, they cannot sin, for power is not given unto Satan to tempt little children, until they begin to become accountable before me;
“For it is given unto them even as I will, according to mine own pleasure, that great things may be required at the hand of their fathers.”
D&C 29:46-48
Great accomplishments are required of fathers and mothers before Satan has power to tempt little children. It is the responsibility of the parents to lay a solid foundation by teaching Church standards by example and by precept. To the sisters, this means they must make a career of motherhood. They must let nothing supersede that career. Mothers, when your children begin to ask you questions, even about the delicate things in life, don’t turn them aside. Take time to explain to their childish minds, or as they grow up, to their older minds. A successful mother is one who is never too tired for her sons and daughters to come and share their joys and their sorrows with her.
I pray that the blessings of the Lord will be on you, my beloved sisters.
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