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"All I Know About Parenting Is Love" by Laura Theodosis

 When Brother Nelson came up to Nick and I a few weeks ago to ask us to speak in sacrament, we agreed, of course. When he told us the assigned talks and topics were about parenting, Nick looked at me and asked, “does he hate us?” Nick knew that we were in for a doozy of the next two weeks, that we were going to be humbled constantly, and that we were going to second-guess every little parenting decision we made. And we did. And it was hard. So you are welcome, we saved y’all from that. I don’t have all the answers, and many more of you in this audience have more experience and have been doing it longer than I have. But, just like each testimony is unique and personal, our earthly parenting journeys are unique and personal. All I want to do today, all I want to share today, is what I have learned to be important about parenting for me these last two decades. Brother Nelson gave us two particular recent general conference talks to reference as we were working on our talks. They were:...