CHAPTER V.
EARLY BOYHOOD Having now laid down the general principles which we have to recognize in the moral training of the young, let me endeavor to make some practical suggestions how these principles may be carried out, suggestions which, as a matter of fact, I have found to be helpful to educated mothers in the great and responsible task of training the men of the future generation.
All I would earnestly ask you to remember is, that in offering these suggestions I am in no way venturing to dictate to you, only endeavoring to place a wide experience at your service.

Doubtless you will often modify and, in some cases, very possibly reverse my conclusions.

All I ask is that you should weigh them thoughtfully and prayerfully and with an open and unprejudiced mind before you finally reject them.
Let us, therefore, begin with the nursery.

It is in the nursery that the roots of the evil we have to contend with are often first planted, and this in more senses than one.

In the more obvious sense all experienced mothers know what I mean.