How to Raise a Little Girl...

Elain S. Dalton

General Young Women President

Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-Day Saints

I am working on my General Conference advice to fathers post. But I couldn't wait to write my thoughts about Sister Dalton's wonderful and timely message to dads! How luckier can a dad get?!?

So, here are my notes from her talk (I was writing feverishly!), not all verbatim. I know I missed some, but here is what I have. Please share your thoughts!

• The best a dad can do for his daughter is to love her mother
• Live after the manner of happiness
• Show her a good example
• Be the model of the kind of man she should marry
• Take her to the temple when she is 12
• Protect her
• Be a guardian of virtue
• Have clean thoughts
• Eliminate anything that is nor virtuous
• Have personal purity
• Interview her periodically
• Know her friends
• Share your testimony

Let us be guardians of virtue and love our wife brethren! As we think of our precious daughters, let us remember Elder Holland's warning that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step...so, watch your step!"

As Sister Dalton said "Rise up, O Men of God!" and as the hymn adds "have done with lesser things."