Oct 10, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children, Family, Happiness
Question Dear Gramps, I joined the church at 28 and want my kids to live the standards. I struggle with how they are taught in YW/YM. They tell my kids that their friends aren’t really having fun hanging out and breaking the Law of Chastity etc. They know...
Dec 2, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Children
Dear Gramps As a young teenager, trying to find her own testimony, my daughter was badly and publically embarrassed and upset by her youth leaders and several of the youth. The trauma of the upset sent her into Church inactivity and now, in her early 20s, she no...
Oct 28, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children, Personal Revelation
Question Dear Gramps, I just read a very long answer from you to someone about birth control, quoting several leaders, prophets, etc. Could you find the quotation that says that women should have as many children as she can mentally, emotionally and physically...
Dec 16, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children, Sealings
Dear Gramps, I have four adult children but only one that is living the gospel of Jesus Christ. They were all taught the gospel from their birth. I have been in great despair over this. I have been told that if I keep my temple covenants and strive to keep the...
Nov 5, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children
Question Dear Gramps, I know we are not accountable for our actions until we are 8 years old. What about that 6-year-old kid in Michigan who shot the girl in his class? If they would decide to execute him, would he automatically go to the Celestial Kingdom because he...
Apr 27, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children, Sealings
Dear Gramps, We have adopted our children and have had them sealed to us. I understand that this sealing changes the “blood line”. Someone once told me that Joseph Smith said something to this effect. Do you have this source or any information that we can give to...
Mar 11, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children, Life's Lessons
Dear Gramps, Sometime ago, I was having a discussion with my seminary teacher (also a former Bishop) about lying, and how he told us it was wrong. I remember asking him if it was wrong to lie to your children about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, and his reply was,...
Feb 12, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children
Dear Gramps,My question relates to compulsion, as in using force to get kids to do what they should. I have found as my kids have grown up, that my wife and I so much want them to do the right thing, and to participate in the right activities, that we have sometimes...
Feb 7, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children
Dear Gramps, Is a parent held responsible for her 8 year old children after they are baptized? Stephanie, from Brittany, Louisiana Dear Stephanie Our children are all between 50 and 60 years old and we still feel a sense of responsibility for them. When children are...
Jan 25, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children, Education
Question Dear Gramps, I have a teenager who won’t drop an AP class that he is struggling in. He is overwhelmed and getting depressed. He is getting a B in the class, but it will affect his GPA such that he may not be able to get into BYU, which is his goal. He...
