Consulting Heavenly Father in parenting

Alma is a good example in Mosiah chapter 26. He is faced with an issue about judging wayward people, and he takes the matter to the Lord and praise and listens and gets an answer. And then he follows through with with the Lord prompted him to do. This is a great chapter to consult when I am trying to figure out how to parent in a Christlike way, in a way that heavenly father would want me to do.

An interesting part of the chapters that it ends by talking about what Alma did, but not the result that came from it. It kind of leaves you hanging. Turns out in chapter 27, there were still lots of persecutions and the members of the church were still being inflicted by the unbelievers. So why did heavenly father tell Elma to do what he did when there really was no change there after? Well, later in the chapter, Alma the younger remembers what his father had taught. Maybe what Alma the younger was remembering was his father's most recent admonishment. Something that was inspired and chapter 26.