The article “Raising Missionaries Right: 8 Skills Parents Are Overlooking” provides ideas on how parents can help prepare their children emotionally and socially to serve a mission. Whether you’re trying to raise a missionary or not, these eight skills can help you better prepare your children to face the world.

Read the article to get ideas on each of the eight points below:

1. Teach them how to be humble without feeling humiliated.
2. Teach them how to take rejection.
3. Teach them how to be motivated.
4. Teach them to manage differences.
5. Teach them how to have a conversation.
6. Teach them to care for themselves.
7. Teach them how to be positive.
8. Teach them to be spiritual.

For more parenting ideas, see the section “Christlike Parenting” in the Life Help section of Gospel Library.

Also see Planning for a Mission: A Guide for Latter-Day Saint Missionaries, Parents, and Leaders, a step-by-step guide with everything you need to know from deciding to serve a mission, to submitting a missionary recommendation, to receiving your call, and leaving on your mission. It includes reflection questions and spaces for prospective missionaries to make plans for their mission.