Love

 Real love for the sinner may compel courageous confrontation--not acquiescence! Real love does not support self-destructing behavior. 

Russell M. Nelson

Parenting, Example

Wrestling with Comparisons

 Wrestling with Comparisons by J.B. Haws

Helping Children Develop Feelings of Self-Worth

 M. Joseph Brough from the YM General Presidency:

Tolerating improper behavior (and I’m going to add in ourselves or others) without loving correction is false compassion and reinforces the common notion that wickedness might in fact be happiness. 

 Elder Larkin Story: When he was a kid he went to a family reunion and he was having fun terrorizing squirrels with his cousins when his mom made him go to a family meeting.  He didn’t want to be there and was acting up when his aunt pointed at him and said, “Todd. I’ve been doing family history and looking for Casper Yenter for 22 years and I’m going to die before I find him, so I need you to find him for me.”  When Elder Larkin was young he would send letters to Germany trying to find information about Casper Yenter. When he was older he looked online. The search for Casper Yenter kept helped him make good decisions growing up. He would tell himself, if you do this bad thing, then God won’t help you find Casper Yenter.  He also felt a connection to his family and heritage because of it. Just recently he was doing family history one Sunday and he searched once again for Casper Yenter and found him. His parish records in Germany had been digitized and now his work could be done. After 42 years Casper Yenter was found, but it was the years of searching that helped save Elder Larkin.