If, instead of giving vent to that fear, worry, dread, you exercised your reason and faith a little more, and then self-denial, and refused to give vocal expression to your worry, you could then claim unselfishness in the interest of your child.

But to put your fears and worries, your dreads and anxieties, around a young child, destroying his exuberance and joy, surrounding him with the mental and spiritual fogs that beset your own life is neither wise, kind, nor unselfish.
Another serious worry that besets many parents is that pertaining to the courtship or engagement of their children.

Here again let me caution my readers not to construe my admonitions into indifference to this important epoch in their child's life.

I would have them lovingly, wisely, sagely advise.

But there is a vast difference between this, and the uneasy, fretful, nagging worries that beset so many parents and which often lead to serious friction.