[256:A] _St. Luke, xxiv, 13._
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Say "Yes" and "No" to a child and stick to it. This is the beginning of
discipline.
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The way to spoil a child is to give it all it wants and require nothing
in return. The way to make a child grow up sensible and unselfish is to
give it little, and require of it much. For it is not what others do for
us that benefits us, but what we do for ourselves and others.
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Some one truly said, the best way for a man to train up a child in the
way it should go, is to travel that way sometimes himself.
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_I Kings, i, 6_--"His father had not displeased him at any time in
saying, 'Why hast thou done so?'"
A young man, as he was going to the place of execution, desired to
whisper something into his mother's ear; but when she came, instead of
whispering, he bit off her ear, telling her, that it was because she did
not chastise him for his faults when a boy, he was brought to such an
unhappy end.
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Could it be believed that a child should be forced to learn the
rudiments of a language which he is never to use, and neglect the
writing a good hand, and casting accounts?
--_Locke._
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Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
--_Milton._
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Children, a bond of union than which the human heart feels none more
endearing.
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What children hear at home soon flies abroad.
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