If Everything in Life Counted on It, Because in Fact Everything in Life Does Count on It

Let us work a little harder at the responsibility we have as parents. The home is the basic unit of society. The family is the basic organization of the Church.

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices. The pressures we feel each day are tremendous. Husbands come home from their employment each day tired and short-tempered. Unfortunately, most of the wives work. They too face a serious challenge that may be more costly than it is worth. Children are left to seek their own entertainment, and much of it is not good.

My brothers and sisters, we must work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

If we fail in our homes, we fail in our lives. No man is truly successful who has failed in his home.

Author: Gordon B. Hinckley
Title: Each a Better Person
Where: Ensign, Nov 2002, 99

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