The mother's practical guide in the early training of her children1836 |
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Page 209 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 214 - The rod and reproof give wisdom : but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Page 131 - Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Page 127 - Whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, we should do all to the glory of our Lord.
Page 226 - This experiment, frequently repeated, will in a little time so perfectly habituate the child to yield to the parent whenever he interferes, that he will make no opposition. I can assure you from experience, having literally practised this method myself, that I never had a child of twelve months old but would suffer me to take any thing from him or her, without the least mark of anger or dissatisfaction, while they would not suffer any other to do so without the bitterest complaints.
Page 5 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Page 119 - Hence, also, sprang the zeal with which she cautioned parents to train up their children in the way in which they should go, and the grief with which she saw that the majority of parents neglect this sacred duty.
Page 219 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 223 - To instruct youth in the languages and in the sciences is comparatively of little importance, if we are inattentive to the habits they acquire, and are not careful in giving to all their different faculties, and all their different principles of action, a proper degree of employ; ment.
Page 223 - To watch over the associations which they form in their tender years, to give them early habits of mental activity, to rouse their curiosity and to direct it to proper objects, to exercise their ingenuity and invention, to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them, to awaken their sensibilities to the beauties of nature, and to inspire them with a relish for intellectual enjoyment — these form but a part of the...