Till this age, a day school or a tutor should be had recourse to, and when the time comes for sending him off to school, at least we can refuse to place the boy anywhere, either at a private or public school, where there is not some woman to mother and look after the boys and exert a good womanly influence over them.

A head-master keenly alive to moral dangers, with a capable wife ready to use her womanly influence in aiding and abetting his efforts, I have found the best possible combination.
But if it is decided that the boys are to be brought up at the day school, your range of choice will probably be very small.

You will have to look wholly to your home influence and teaching to counteract any evil influence they may encounter in their school life.

But as your boys will never be separated from you, what may not that home influence and teaching, with knowledge and forewarning to direct it,--what may it not accomplish?
II Let us, then, think out the best ways in which you can warn and guard your boy and fulfil your responsibility of being his moral teacher.
Let us begin with the simplest measure which you can take, and which can present no difficulty to anyone.

Before sending your boy to school get him quietly by himself and say to him some such words as these: "My boy, you know, or will come to know, that when boys get together they often talk of nasty things, and even do nasty things.