Please Be Patient With Us

We are adults in training, new on the job, dependent on you, looking for instruction. Please be patient enough to show us and help us understand as many times as it takes.

Please discuss with us and help us understand the rules and boundaries instead of angered no's that come with no teaching, no explanation and just leave us shaken and confused.

Please give us age appropriate expectations and help us learn them gently with positive encouragement, giving us patience and time to learn them.

We just do what comes natural to us. We need you to gently teach us what we should do and how we should do it and help us learn qualities and skills to help us get along well with others.

We love you and hope that you will treat us the way you would want to be treated if you were unaware or just new to learning something or if you made a mistake.

You are an example and a model for us. Show us through your words and actions what kind of people we should be.

When discipline of correction is needed let it be done in love, helping us to understand why we are being disciplined.

We need your love and patience to feel good about ourselves and develop a positive self image.

Let us grow up in a nurturing, loving environment and remember to let us know when we are doing well.

"Of all the joys in life no other equals that of happy parenthood. Of all the responsibilities with which we struggle, no other is so serious. To rear children in an atmosphere of love, security and faith is the most rewarding of all challenges. The good result from such efforts becomes life's most satisfying compensation. Use the discipline love rather than the heartbreak of the discipline of terror. You fathers and you mothers, I know you love your children. I hope you treat them as if you love them. I know your patience wheres thin but I hope that you would restrain your anger. I do not believe that it is necessary to hurt children or beat them or do anything of that kind. My father never laid a hand on me in all my life except to bless me. I hope you keep nurturing and love your children leading them in light and truth. They are the most precious thing you have in all the world. Among all the assets you possess nothing is more precious than your children. You will grow old, even as I have grown old, and when you look around you will see that the greatest thing you have is the love, confidence and respect of your children. Fathers, control your tempers now and in all the years to come. Mothers,control your voices, keep them down. " President Gordon B. Hinkely