A Few Suggestions to Mothers on the Management of Their Children

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Churchill, 1884 - Child rearing - 144 pages
 

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Page 23 - My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me...
Page 28 - Withhold not correction from the child : for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Page 26 - The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Page 28 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 70 - So runs my dream; but what am I? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page 24 - To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart: To keep my hands from picking and stealing, and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering: To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity: Not to covet nor desire other men's goods; But to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, And to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Page 24 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods, but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto the which it shall please God to call me.
Page 21 - ... thing to be hurried and got over as quickly as possible, and the meaning of each sentence should be explained to children. It is impossible for children to take an interest in what they do not understand. To end the day peacefully at a good father or mother's knee, with the calming peaceful words, on the lips of a little child of our dear Lord's Prayer, is to begin life in a way which cannot fail to have a good influence on the after-life; and the influence of any good woman reverently teaching...
Page 15 - ... hereditary predisposition to many things, and the fact that children differ. The common mistake is made of thinking all children are alike, whereas even in a family having the same parents the nature and disposition of each child differs from the other, and you will rarely if ever find even in the same family two children similar in disposition. Nationality has also a great influence on disposition. You would not expect a Spaniard, an Italian, a German, a Russian, or even a French, English, Irish,...
Page 9 - It should not be forgotten that children are little spectators, and are always very ready to copy whatever they see around them. There is no doubt that many evil habits in grown people are caused by early contact with vulgar-minded people, and there is no doubt that many people have much cause to deplore having been left entirely to the care and control of servants during their early years. Sometimes, when removed from the charge of servants, children are irremediably spoilt. How often are children,...

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