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The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

CHAPTER XIX
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She will enjoy play as a child, society and recreation as a girl, all the more because she has some stated tasks.

She may learn to manage the family mending by aiding you in sorting and repairing the clothes when they come up from the wash.

When she is capable of entirely relieving you of this burden, pay her a stated amount each week for doing it.

She will glory in the delightful feeling of independence imparted by the knowledge of her ability to earn her own pocket-money, and take the first lesson in that much-neglected branch of education,--knowledge of the value of dollars and cents, and how to take care of them.
Few children are born with a sensitive conscience regarding their work, so the mother will, at first, find it necessary to keep an eye on all the tasks performed by the willing, if often careless, girl.

Do not judge her too harshly.


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