Make Your Children Feel That You Love Them

 

Keeping Our Children Close to Our Hearts

By Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Well, I have not proven to be the perfect father I vowed to be that night, but I still want to be and I am still trying. I believe this wise counsel from President Joseph F. Smith: “… If you will keep your [children] close to your heart, within the clasp of your arms; if you will make them … feel that you love them … and keep them near to you, they will not go very far from you. …”¹

… We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them “within the clasp of our arms.”