Nurturing children with unconditional love is of utmost importance. President Gordon B. Hinckley (1997) admonished parents:
"Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God. . . . Love them, take care of them. Fathers, control your tempers. . . . Mothers, control your voices. . . . Rear your children in love, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Take care of your little ones. Welcome them into your homes, and nurture and love them with all of your hearts" (p. 422).
Every child is entitled to grow up in an atmosphere of warmth, love, security, and companionship (Hinckley, 1997). Paul's counsel to the Ephesians still rings with wisdom for parents today: "Provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4).
As an apostle, Elder Hinckley (1978) said: "How fortunate, how blessed is the child who feels the affection of his parents. That warmth, that love will bear sweet fruit in the years that follow" (p. 18).
The expression of affection at home protects children as they seek love and acceptance outside the home, where some sources of love may be unhealthy. Elder Marlin K. Jensen (1999) taught, "If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family" (p. 64).
President Hinckley (1995) also has said: "I have tremendous respect for fathers and mothers who are nurturing their children in light and truth . . . who spare the rod and govern with love, who look upon their little ones as their most valued assets to be protected, trained, and blessed" (p. 70).
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