It takes perseverence, a few aborted trials, some unexpected and terrible results, and more prayer to find out what went wrong. Then comes an experience that opens our minds and prepares us to better understand our perfect Heavenly Parent and His great plan of agency. By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile. The Lord's program of influence is different from either of those options. He recommends that we teach the doctrines of the kingdom through our words and our actions.
Teaching is better than punishing, manipulating, bribing, threatening, or neglecting.
It does not rely on our superior power or resources, but on our eternal love. We will show that the Lord's way is indeed better than our instinctive ways. About the Author H. Wallace Goddard is an associate professor of Family and Human Development for Utah State University. His Ph.D. research, which challenged traditional thinking in parenting programs, led him to design programs recognized nationally in the professional community. He was one of four scholars invited by the U.S. government to develop the National Extension Parent Education Model.