There is not much that can be achieved in the world without knowing
conditions and requirements. So it is with the home. The family cannot
enjoy the sympathy of the mother without giving her their confidence.
The husband who confides his financial affairs to the wife will seldom
fail. Let her know the amount and source of his income; let her feel
that she is his partner and that a portion of his income is hers, and
there will be little danger of financial failure or domestic
unhappiness.
A mother’s success with her family depends upon how much she lives in
their lives and experiences; the interest she takes in each day’s
effort. Even though she cannot go with them she can enjoy their feelings
and live them all over again with them in the home. The habit of telling
mother everything which has happened during the day is not only a great
safeguard to the children, but the mother may live over her childhood
days of dolls and toys, and may enlighten her mind by reading and
studying with her bright boy and girl; may even dream the sweet love
dreams all over again as with a gentle hand and sympathetic heart she
guides her children to a life of safety and happiness.