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| “… no hired governess, no relative, no servant, can or does have the interest in training a child or the understanding of the task that a mother has” and may Etiquipedia add, “or that a father has?” as families and the sexes have changed quite a bit since this article was first written! – Image source, Etiquipedia private library |
Marital Error Brings Problem Into Home Life
WHEN YOU HAVE given your children the wrong kind of father the least atonement you can make is to, yourself, train them, even at a sacrifice of things you feel you had rather do. Those of you who read “Careers Limited” do.
Those of you who read “Careers Limited” in Scribner's magazine must realize that no hired governess, no relative, no servant, can or does have the interest in training a child or the understanding of the task that a mother has.
Especially is this true if children have been given a bad heredity or have lived their tender years with the example or have lived their tender years with the example of an irresponsible or disloyal father before them.
It is important that their mother be at home to watch their development and see that their emotional reactions are curbed and wisely directed, their manners are what the manners of well bred people should be, that they learn habits of punctuality, application to the task in hand, that they are taught pride in truth and in meeting responsibility.
Character does not just happen. It is built in by education, example and environment. A child whose father has run off or shirked the duty he assumed when he became a father, has set a very bad emotional pattern before his children. He has left much for the mother to undo, if the misery caused by the father is not be to repeated in the homes of the sons.
That being so, the best service you can by any possibility give them is your personal association and guidance during their formative years Don’t welch. You made a foolish mistake when you married. Don't make a worse one now.– From “The Log Of Life” San Pedro Pilot, 1938
Especially is this true if children have been given a bad heredity or have lived their tender years with the example or have lived their tender years with the example of an irresponsible or disloyal father before them.
It is important that their mother be at home to watch their development and see that their emotional reactions are curbed and wisely directed, their manners are what the manners of well bred people should be, that they learn habits of punctuality, application to the task in hand, that they are taught pride in truth and in meeting responsibility.
Character does not just happen. It is built in by education, example and environment. A child whose father has run off or shirked the duty he assumed when he became a father, has set a very bad emotional pattern before his children. He has left much for the mother to undo, if the misery caused by the father is not be to repeated in the homes of the sons.
That being so, the best service you can by any possibility give them is your personal association and guidance during their formative years Don’t welch. You made a foolish mistake when you married. Don't make a worse one now.– From “The Log Of Life” San Pedro Pilot, 1938
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