The 8th principle is Work. The book states: “Family work gives children opportunities to learn to appreciate work and to feel the satisfaction of accomplishment, especially as parents and children work together. Work should be tailored to the age and abilities of children to foster feelings of success and confidence.” They refer to D&C 58: 27-28 which reads: “Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.” President Gordon B. Hinckley said: “We are all inherently lazy. We would rather play than work…But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman”. Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught that “teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them”. Working beside our parents as we grow up gives you those teachable moments that are so precious. For our children to leave home they had to be able to do all the work in and around the home. Our daughter could grow grass and cut it just as well as her brother. And our son one summer had a budget to plan meals, purchase the ingredients, and cook the meals. I told them it was so they did not have to get married until they were ready to.

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