Rather than dwell on death, Lincoln prefers to live life on his own terms.  "If I am killed I can die but once," he is fond of saying, " but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again."
-From Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

In our remarkable parental stewardship, there are many ways that goodly parents can access the help and support they need to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to their children. Let me suggest five things parents can do to create stronger family cultures:

First, parents can pray in earnest, asking our Eternal Father to help them love, understand, and guide the children He has sent to them.

Second, they can hold family prayer, scripture study, and family home evenings and eat together as often as possible, making dinner a time of communication and the teaching of values.

Third, parents can fully avail themselves of the Church’s support network, communicating with their children’s Primary teachers, youth leaders, and class and quorum presidencies. By communicating with those who are called and set apart to work with their children, parents can provide essential understanding of a child’s special and specific needs.

Fourth, parents can share their testimonies often with their children, commit them to keep the commandments of God, and promise the blessings that our Heavenly Father promises His faithful children.

Fifth, we can organize our families based on clear, simple family rules and expectations, wholesome family traditions and rituals, and “family economics,” where children have household responsibilities and can earn allowances so that they can learn to budget, save, and pay tithing on the money they earn.

These suggestions for creating stronger family cultures work in tandem with the culture of the Church. Our strengthened family cultures will be a protection for our children from “the fiery darts of the adversary” (1 Nephi 15:24) embedded in their peer culture, the entertainment and celebrity cultures, the credit and entitlement cultures, and the Internet and media cultures to which they are constantly exposed. Strong family cultures will help our children live in the world and not become “of the world” (John 15:19).

-Elder L. Tom Perry, "Becoming Goodly Parents," October 2012 General Conference

Culture is defined as the way of life of a people. There is a unique gospel culture, a set of values and expectations and practices common to all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This gospel culture, or way of life, comes from the plan of salvation, the commandments of God, and the teachings of living prophets. It is given expression in the way we raise our families and live our individual lives.
-Elder L. Tom Perry, "Becoming Goodly Parents,"October 2012 General Conference

All parents aspire to raise the kind of children that they know will make the right choices--even when they themselves are not there to supervise.  One of the most effective ways to do that is to build the right family culture.  It becomes the informal but powerful set of guidelines about how your family behaves.
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This is what is so powerful about culture.  It's like an autopilot.  What is critical to understand is that for it to be an effective force, you have to properly program the autopilot--you have to build the culture that you want in your family.  If you do not consciously build it and reinforce it from the earliest stages of your family life, a culture will still form--but it will form in ways you may not like.  -Clayton M. Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?, pp. 172-173.

“Heaven is a place, but also a condition; it is home and family. It is understanding and kindness. It is interdependence and selfless activity. It is quiet, sane living; personal sacrifice, genuine hospitality, wholesome concern for others. It is living the commandments of God without ostentation or hypocrisy. It is selflessness. It is all about us. We need only to be able to recognize it as we find it and enjoy it. Yes, my dear brother, I’ve had many glimpses of heaven.”
-President Spencer W. Kimball, "Glimpses of Heaven," Ensign, December 1971

Thus, as dedicated disciples we must act and make prophetic priorities our priorities. In order to do this we will need to be riveted on the words of the current prophets, seers, and revelators.
-Elaine S. Dalton, "Prophetic Priorities and Dedicated Disciples," BYU Devotional, January 15, 2013

But buying into that worldly philosophy denies the knowledge you already have that you are not ordinary and that you have come here to go forward with faith and with the power of your youth and your unique perspective. Don’t let old paradigms become your parameters.
-Elaine S. Dalton, "Prophetic Priorities and Dedicated Disciples," BYU Devotional, January 15, 2013

The word confidence is composed of two Latin words: con, meaning “with,” and fideo, meaning “faith.” So you see, confidence means “with faith.”
-Elaine S. Dalton, "Prophetic Priorities and Dedicated Disciples," BYU Devotional, January 15, 2013