4/6/2016 Parenting Principles Flashcards
Parents should discipline their children according to principles of righteousness. What are some of those principles?
?Discipline of children must be motivated more by love than by punishment. teach them to work and to be obedient?
How would you describe a “mother heart?”
A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her.
If she has children, she is a “goodly parent” (1 Ne. 1:1) who lives and teaches standards of behavior exactly in line with the teachings of living prophets. She teaches her “children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord” (D&C 68:28). Rather than listening to the voices and partial truths of the world, she knows that gospel standards are based on eternal, unchangeable truths. She believes that to be “primarily responsible for the nurture of [her] children” is a vital, dignified, and “sacred responsibilit[y]
President Hunter taught that for a man to be faithful to his wife, he must avoid three things? Name them.
?Pornography, flirtations, and unwholesome fantasies?
What did President Hunter say is one of the greatest things a father can do for his children?
love their mother
Leadership of the family is a man’s most important and sacred responsibility. What two things does effective family leadership require?
quantity and quality time
Presiding in righteousness necessitates a shared responsibility between husband and wife. If a man operates independent of or without regard to the feelings and counsel of his wife in governing the family, of what did President Hunter say he is guilty?
unrighteous dominion
What are to be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife?
Keep yourselves above any domineering or unworthy behavior in the tender, intimate relationship between husband and wife. Because marriage is ordained of God, the intimate relationship between husbands and wives is good and honorable in the eyes of God. He has commanded that they be one flesh and that they multiply and replenish the earth You are to love your wife as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it
To have successful homes, President Faust said values must be taught and rules, standards, and absolutes must be established. What values do you feel are most important to teach? What rules, standards, and absolutes should exist?
work and obedience… etc
What should be the overarching and principle in all child discipline?
Discipline of children must be motivated more by love than by punishment
Elder Christofferson identified three trends or forces that are weakening and even eliminating the influence of women in the home. What are they?
devaluation of marriage and of motherhood and homemaking as a career
Attitudes toward human sexuality threaten the moral authority of women on several fronts. Abortion for personal or social convenience strikes at the heart of a woman’s most sacred powers and destroys her moral authority. The same is true of sexual immorality and of revealing dress that not only debases women but reinforces the lie that a woman’s sexuality is what defines her worth.
erase all differences between the masculine and the feminine.
Describe Baumrind’s four different parenting styles discussed in class.
Authoritarian
Permissive
Authoritative
What are five ways to foster family connectedness?
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What is “cocooning?”
Cocooning is the name given to the trend that sees individuals socializing less and retreating into their home more.
What is “prearming?”
to arm in advance
True or False: Research suggests “cocooning” is an effective way to teach children?
false
