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People are super busy. So it was kind of a tricky transition to get to the point where it was like, "OK, what are we supposed to do here? How can we make this happen? What do we need to do?" But once we started figuring it out and realizing it was simpler than we were worrying that it should be, things went a lot better. [SPEAKING SPANISH] It's a little bit of a challenge to us because we have six kids to gather together. And then we are both working, so the children really urged us together as family. It's the time that we can talk to our children about their individual goals so that we could be able to support them and to assist them. And we see the changes of our children that they are happy and having good relationship to each other. And our children also develop their skills and talents. There were so many times where Carolyn wanted to quit the band. It was hard. She'd come home with her legs hurting. She'd come home with her feet hurting. And she just said, "I don't want to do this. This is stupid. I don't want to do this. This is hard." And we'd have to say, "We have to learn how to do hard things, because life's going to be full of hard things." And the minute you make a goal, the minute you have a plan, you're figuring out how to accomplish that hard thing. And then you do, and you realize, "Oh, I can do hard things." And then the next thing becomes a little bit easier. I think one of the challenges or roadblocks is not getting discouraged, just realizing that that is part of the process is learning and growing, and that that is also a part of applying the Atonement is as we fail in certain goals or as we seemingly fail, that we are learning how to set goals and how to change that in the future. If we had a little bit of discouragement at a goal that hasn't quite come to pass the way we thought, we might have to make some adjustments to it. Start with things you can accomplish. And if they don't work out after a week or two, teach your children that wonderful process of modifying, and then go forward again. It's not broken. You have the power, and the faith, and the ability to fix it and to mold it to fill your family's needs. Sometimes you have to deal with them not necessarily failing but not accomplishing a goal, and help them understand that you always learn more from failing. We say that all the time. You'll always learn more from failing than from winning, so what can you learn from this? So I think it's important for kids to know that you set a goal. And if you can't quite meet that goal, it's OK. You go back. You change it however you need to, and then you can move forward in a really positive way. Amen.

Ideas for Parents on Helping Children and Youth Overcome Challenges

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“Challenges are inevitable,” say parents in sharing their experiences of helping their youth face discouragement and hard tasks as they strive to meet their goals in the Children and Youth program.
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