Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
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"In terms of your happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing, I repeat nothing, will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out."
Lead your sons and daughters and guide and direct them from the time they are very small and teach them in the ways of the Lord, that peace will be their companion throughout life.
I mentioned to the Relief Society women two weeks ago specific things that they ought to teach their sons and daughters. I repeat them for you tonight.
The first is to encourage them to develop good friendships. Next is to teach them the importance of education.
Also, teach your children self-respect, to stay away from drugs, teach them the virtue of honesty, to be virtuous, to look forward to the time when they may be married in the temple and teach your children to pray.
"Fathers, caution your sons against having their bodies tattooed. They may resist your talk now, but the time will come when they will thank you. A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body." Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue.
As the years pass, may you know "that peace which passeth all understanding" as you look upon your sons and daughters, who likewise have known that sacred and wonderful peace.
