When Grace was 8 or 9, she asked me how I learned to become a mom, as if I had majored in motherhood or something like that. I responded that I didn’t go to school to learn how to be a mom but that I asked Heavenly Father what to do and he sent His Spirit to teach me. It’s been such a humbling experience to realize that all of us are winging it. However, God has provided guidance and resources to help me. I’m also grateful that despite my inadequacies, I can parent with complete confidence when I am teaching my children to follow God’s laws. I feel like I’m sending them to the wolves each morning when I send them to school knowing they are surrounded by a lot of bad language and evil influences but I hope that by teaching them the gospel of Jesus Christ it will fortify them.
