Gordon B. Hinckley
Parents, safeguard your families. Bring up your children in light and truth as the Lord has commanded. Shower them with love, but do not spoil them. Share your testimony with them. Read the scriptures together. Guide and protect them. You have no greater blessing and no greater responsibility than those whom the Lord has placed in your care. Pray together. There is no substitute for family prayer when all kneel together before the Lord. ("Thanks to the Lord for His Blessings," Ensign, May 1999, 89)
What, you may ask, can be done? The observance of four simple things on the part of parents would in a generation or two turn our societies around in terms of their moral values.
They are simply these: Let parents and children
(1) teach and learn goodness together,
(2) work together,
(3) read good books together, and
(4) pray together.
("Four Simple Things to Help Our Families and Our Nations," Ensign, Sept. 1996, 7)
