"Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks--try to stay awake!
Pray for the Lord to
inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of
Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord."

Humor can improve our perspective, strengthen our relationships, and also help us cope with what goes on around us.  An uneasy situation suddenly becomes more comfortable if laughter is there.  Friendships are formed through the sharing of (ability to) laugh and have fun. More

If we build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation . . . Our family activities and traditions can be a beacon to the rest of the world as an example of how we should live to merit His choice blessings and live in peace and harmony until the day that He returns to rule and reign over us.

"We must take care in our families not to cause spiritual or emotional snakebites!
In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. If we are not careful, we can fall prey to these habits within our own homes and families and soon find ourselves criticizing our spouse, our children, our extended family members. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism! In our families, small arguments and petty criticisms, if allowed to go unchecked, can poison relationships and
escalate into estrangements, even abuse and divorce. Instead, just like we learned with the poisonous venom, we must 'make full haste' to reduce arguments, eliminate ridicule, do away with criticism, and remove
resentment and anger. We cannot afford to let such dangerous passions ruminate--not even one day."

Building a Strong Family Examples and ideas to help you solve problems and develop a strong family.
Also a web site with good ideas for families called Home and Family.

"This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of 'the great plan of happiness' so we can return home and know what it means to be there. Over and over the Lord tells us why the
plan is worth our sacrifice--and His. Eve called it 'the joy of our redemption' (Moses 5:11). Jacob called it 'that happiness
which is prepared for the saints' (2 Nephi 9:43). Of necessity, the plan is full of thorns and tears--His and ours. But because He
and we are so totally in this together, our being 'at one' with Him in overcoming all opposition will itself bring us 'incomprehensible joy.' "

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"Families unite when they do meaningful things together. Children should work together under the leadership of parents. Common employment, even on a part-time basis, is valuable. So is a family garden. Common projects to help others are also desirable. Families may establish a perpetual savings fund for travel together. They can research and write family histories and share them with others. They can organize family reunions. They can educate family members in the basic skills of living, including managing finances, maintaining property, and broadening their general education. The learning of languages is a useful preparation for service and modern life. The teachers of these subjects can be parents or grandparents or other members of the extended family.

"Some may say, 'But we have no time for that.' As for time to do what is truly worthwhile, I
suggest that many parents will find that they can turn their family on if they will turn their television off. . . .

"There is no other organization that can so completely satisfy our need for belonging
and happiness like the family. Why do we yearn for home and loved ones? I believe this yearning is a universal, God-given instinct that all people in all cultures are blessed with. I also believe that a loving Heavenly Father gives it to us because within the family we experience most of life's greatest joys. The sights, sounds, and associations of family and home are among our most treasured memories and provide our fondest anticipations.

"Sometimes after an enjoyable evening with my family, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-natured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

"I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if
there is to be a return to old and sacred values, it must begin in the home. It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that
self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured."
Gordon B. Hinkley

Families can be one of our greatest sources of happiness. No love is so deep, no joy is so full as that which can exist within the family circle. Families can help bring us the best that life has to offer.

Within the family we can also feel the deepest heartache. Families can falter and even fail. Yet happiness in a family is often possible even when heartaches come.

Like everything of value, family relationships take work, but they are worth the effort because families are meant to be together forever and are meant to bring us joy.

"All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family--someway, somewhere, somehow--and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character."

"Let us not live a life . . . that would bring regret. . . . It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you
lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account--any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you . . with respect and love and deference and kindness. . . .

"The only things you will take with you, when all is said and done, are your family relationships. . . . God bless us to be good fathers, . . good parents, and good husbands to our good wives."