Mothers
Opening Song: Love is Spoken Here (Children's Songbook 190)
Scripture: Alma 56:48
Activity: Write a poem about your mother or plant a seed or a plant that you will nurture and care for.
Closing Song: Mother, I Love You (207)
"Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children." (The Family: A Proclamation to the World)
What does it mean to nurture?
To educate, teach, care for, to supply with nourishment, encourage the development of.
How do mothers nurture their children?
Read to us, teach us how to get dressed, clean our bodies, how to be nice to others. Mothers feed babies and their children. They teach the gospel. They teach us about nature. They comfort us when we are hurt or sad. They take care of us when we are sick.
Scripture: Alma 56:48
Activity: Write a poem about your mother or plant a seed or a plant that you will nurture and care for.
Closing Song: Mother, I Love You (207)
"Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children." (The Family: A Proclamation to the World)
What does it mean to nurture?
To educate, teach, care for, to supply with nourishment, encourage the development of.
How do mothers nurture their children?
Read to us, teach us how to get dressed, clean our bodies, how to be nice to others. Mothers feed babies and their children. They teach the gospel. They teach us about nature. They comfort us when we are hurt or sad. They take care of us when we are sick.
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"A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances.
In all events, a mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship. By the power of her example and teaching, her sons learn to respect womanhood and to incorporate discipline and high moral standards in their own lives. Her daughters learn to cultivate their own virtue and to stand up for what is right, again and again, however unpopular. A mother’s love and high expectations lead her children to act responsibly without excuses, to be serious about education and personal development, and to make ongoing contributions to the well-being of all around them. Elder Neal A. Maxwell once asked: “When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses?” - Elder D. Todd Christofferson (The Moral Force of Women. October 2013 General Conference)
How can the girls prepare to one day become a mother?
"My plea to women and girls today is to protect and cultivate the moral force that is within you. Preserve that innate virtue and the unique gifts you bring with you into the world. Your intuition is to do good and to be good, and as you follow the Holy Spirit, your moral authority and influence will grow. To the young women I say, don’t lose that moral force even before you have it in full measure. Take particular care that your language is clean, not coarse; that your dress reflects modesty, not vanity; and that your conduct manifests purity, not promiscuity. You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other." - Elder D. Todd Christofferson (The Moral Force of Women. October 2013 General Conference)
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