“We’re born good; we learn to sin as we grow older. And if you need evidence of the truth of that doctrine, please see your nearest infant. Look deeply into the child’s eyes. Have you ever seen such sweetness and purity? It’s like you can look through a baby’s eyes right into heaven.
“Of course, that changes a little later in their lives when wide-eyed innocence turns into wild-eyed mischievousness. That’s when children become accountable and capable of sin—when they know and understand the difference between right and wrong. Through the Prophet Joseph Smith the Lord revealed that the age of accountability is eight years old” (Ballard, Our Search for Happiness, 87).