This is from someone’s talk at church. It has some very good insights and will be run as a series.

Principles for Successful Parenting

The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve, in 2006
gave 9 principles to guide parents in their responsibilities to teach their children. They said: “Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.” I would like to go over each of these with you.

The 1st principle is Faith. The book states: “Parents should teach children to have faith in Jesus Christ and use their growing faith in gospel principles to govern their personal lives.” They referred to D&C 68:25 which says: “And again, inasmuch as parents have children in Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach them not to understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents.” I have to say that in all the years that Rich delivered babies and that I have gone to deliveries of babies they don’t naturally pop out with an instruction book. But, the reason I love the scriptures so much is because they do contain the instructions for raising children as well as how to live our own lives. President Thomas S. Monson back in 2004 in a First Presidency Message called “Teaching Our Children” stated: “Parents and Grandparents fill the role of teacher. So do siblings of the growing child. I offer those who serve as teachers of children four simple suggestions for your consideration: 1. Teach prayer, 2. Inspire faith, 3. Live truth, and 4. Honor God.” He went on to elaborate on each and under inspire faith he stated: “I think that there is not a member of this Church today who has not been touched by the accounts of the early pioneers. Those who did so much for the good of all surely had as their objective to inspire faith. They met the goal in a magnificent manner.” Faith is where we can tell children stories of the Pioneers or your own ancestors, or when you share your testimonies, or read the scriptures together.