My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. Proverbs 6:20, R.S.V.  {CC 139.1}        What the parents are, that, to a great extent, the children will be. The physical conditions of the parents, their dispositions and appetites, their mental and moral tendencies, are, to a greater or less degree, reproduced in their children.  {CC 139.2}        The nobler the aims, the higher the mental and spiritual endowments, and the better developed the physical power of the parents, the better will be the life equipment they give their children. In cultivating that which is best in themselves, parents are exerting an influence to mold society and to uplift future generations.  {CC 139.3}        Fathers and mothers need to understand their responsibility. The world is full of snares for the feet of the young. . . . They cannot ...