The idle generation! Hours each day and nothing to do… We want you parents to create work for your children… "What can we do?" they ask. Do the shopping, work in the hospital, help the neighbors and the church custodian, wash dishes, vacuum the floors, make the beds, get the meals, learn to sew. Read good books, … clean the house, press your clothes, rake the leaves, shovel the snow, peddle paper. Lawmakers in their overeagerness to protect the child have legislated until the pendulum has swung to the other extreme. But no law prohibits most work…
Spencer W. Kimball, Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.360-1. See also D&C 42:42
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