There is always an exchange in power within any relationship. In a family, the parents are put into a leadership position. This means the parents are to lead not to control. Discipline is the key to this relationship. The parents are to be like role models and guide their children. To show their children how to live and how to react to stressful situations. These concepts are not new, but parents do not follow them. The First Presidency and other leaders of our church have emphasized these concepts for us to follow. Research and medical professional have stressed for us to develop these concepts. Why don’t most families follow these concepts? It is a harder road to take. We were raised a certain way and believe that it should still be that way, but we were raised in a different world. In today’s world, with all of the positive information and feedback to Discipline and what we should and should not do with our children. It is a lot harder to change our ways to adapt to today’s world.
Weekly councils bring significant benefits to a family and marriage. It allows the family to check in with each other. It helps keep harmony within the family. It helps bring issues that are just starting to the front. This way, they can get solved before the problem gets out of hand. Weekly councils bring the Spirit into your family and marriage. You can use this type of council to bring you closer to one another. Sharing your feelings and thoughts about your family and marriage allows for you to grow closer to one another as well as grow closer to Heavenly Father.
Becoming one within marriage is very important. There are plenty of couples within The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints that have shown me how to become one with my spouse. I have seen couples that as they grow closer to Heavenly Father, they grow closer to each other. In tough times they lean on each other and Heavenly Father. They keep up with their commitments to each other and Heavenly Father.
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