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Teaching Children to Work............ 250
A Father’s Duty...................... 251
A Mother’s Duty..................... 252
Disciplining with Love................ 252
Personal Righteousness Prepares Parents.. 253
Spending Time with Children.......... 254
The Greatest Challenge in the World—Good
Parenting, Elder James E. Faust.......... 255
Plan of Salvation
“The Great Plan of Happiness,”
Elder Dallin H. Oaks.................. 259
Pornography
Selected Teachings..................... 264
Effects of Pornography on Dating,
Marriages, and Families.............. 264
Movies and Videos.................... 266
Pride
Cleansing the Inner Vessel,
President Ezra Taft Benson.............. 268
Beware of Pride,
President Ezra Taft Benson.............. 269
Principles
Selected Teachings..................... 274
Priorities and Balance
Selected Teachings..................... 276
Spiritual Priorities.................... 276
Family Priorities..................... 276
A Letter to Church Members from
the First Presidency.................. 277
Parents in Zion, President Boyd K. Packer... 277
Keeping Life’s Demands in Balance,
Elder M. Russell Ballard............... 280
Problem Solving in Marriage
Selected Teachings..................... 283
Marriage and the Great Plan of Happiness,
Elder Joe J. Christensen............... 284
Overcoming Those Differences of Opinion:
A Formula for Finding Unity in Marriage,
Elder Robert E. Wells................. 286
Prophetic Counsel
Finding Safety in Counsel,
Elder Henry B. Eyring................. 290
Same-Gender Attraction
Selected Teachings..................... 294
Same-Gender Attraction,
Elder Dallin H. Oaks.................. 294
Same-Sex Marriage
Selected Teachings..................... 303
Selfishness
Selected Teachings..................... 304
Self-Reliance
Self-Reliance, Elder Boyd K. Packer......... 305
Becoming Self-Reliant, Elder L. Tom Perry... 307
Single Parents
Selected Teachings..................... 311
Temple Preparation
Selected Teachings..................... 314
Temple Worthiness................... 314
Covenants and Obligations............ 314
Symbolism of the Temple.............. 314
Purpose of the Endowment............ 315
Understanding the Endowment......... 315
Arrangements for a Temple Marriage....... 316
Laws of the Land..................... 316
Church Procedures................... 316
The Holy Temple,
President Boyd K. Packer.............. 318
The Temple Garment: “An Outward
Expression of an Inward Commitment,”
Elder Carlos E. Asay.................. 322
Temporal Preparedness
Selected Teachings..................... 327
Health............................ 327
Employment and Finances............. 327
Home Storage and Production.......... 329
Temptations of Satan and the
Natural Man
Selected Teachings..................... 330
Our Fading Civility,
President Gordon B. Hinckley.......... 331
Discipline a Violent Temper,
President Gordon B. Hinckley.......... 332
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