Parenting and Love

How does "parents loving each other" help them love and care for their children? 

If there is love in the home to start then the children will be loved even more, I cannot know this for sure because I do not have children of my own, but I imagine that the love you have for your spouse is more than you could ever love anyone else until you have children. Then suddenly this love you had for this other person helps you create life in which you are then connected to the child in such a spiritual way that you couldn't understand without experiencing it. You have an immense bond and love for them and that stems from the love parents have for one another.

Please notice that parents are not going to be held accountable for how their children turned out, but on whether or not the parents "discharged" those duties. Why is that an important principle to understand? 

I think this is so very important because children still have their agency. I think it can be easy for parents to blame themselves when a child is not being righteous or well behaved. One thing that I have thought about when it comes to this is that even the greatest father had 1/3 of his children use their agency to rebel (when the third of the hosts of heaven followed Satan). Now what we must remember is to teach our children the basic principles of this life and how they can better our life, giving them encouragement to live their life righteously. 
Provide for their physical and spiritual needs.
Teach them to love and serve one another;


Pick two of the five and clearly explain how you will do that in your marriage and family.

• I think I will do this in such a way as to not be afraid to be a working mother. I also think that I need to earn a degree on the off chance that I need to be the provider for the family physically. My mother was asked to be the main provider for the second half of my life and I am so thankful for that but on top of everything there is a huge benefit in the idea that mothers can work and be an amazing mom at the same time. 
• This is something I want to teach my children from a young age and I think it will simply be by having them preform an act of service every day, some days it may be holding open a door but other days they may choose to do something a little “grander”. Because they choose to. I think it will be apart of their "job chart" and they don't need to tell me what they are each week but at the end of each week they will tell me their favorite way in which they showed someone that Christlike love through service.