2023
How Can Your Family Help Each Other?
January 2023

“How Can Your Family Help Each Other?” Friend, January 2023, 34

Answers from an Apostle

How Can Your Family Help Each Other?

By President M. Russell Ballard

Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Official portrait of President M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 2004.

Adapted from “Family Councils,” Liahona, May 2016, 63–65.

Panel 1 of 4 spot illustrations of various families & kids. Each family should be a different ethnicity. 1. Parents and a child discussing at dinner table. 2. Family choosing new pet. 3. Older sibling helping a younger sibling. 4. Parent and child having a talk.

Pray, listen, talk, and plan together.

Panel 2 of 4 spot illustrations of various families & kids. Each family should be a different ethnicity. 1. Parents and a child discussing at dinner table. 2. Family choosing new pet. 3. Older sibling helping a younger sibling. 4. Parent and child having a talk.

Make decisions together. Include everyone.

Panel 3 of 4 spot illustrations of various families & kids. Each family should be a different ethnicity. 1. Parents and a child discussing at dinner table. 2. Family choosing new pet. 3. Older sibling helping a younger sibling. 4. Parent and child having a talk.

Older children can help younger children.

Panel 4 of 4 spot illustrations of various families & kids. Each family should be a different ethnicity. 1. Parents and a child discussing at dinner table. 2. Family choosing new pet. 3. Older sibling helping a younger sibling. 4. Parent and child having a talk.

Share your concerns, worries, hopes, and dreams with your family.

Illustrations by Gabriele Tafuni