Try to recall how you felt when you were a lazy, because a rapidly growing, girl; bear in mind that it is natural for kittens and all young creatures to be careless and giddy, and try to be gentle and forbearing while correcting and training her.

If she is good for anything, your care will be rewarded in years to come by seeing her trying to do all her work in life "as mamma does." While it is especially expedient that the girls receive this domestic training, the boys of the family should not be exempt from their share of the responsibility.

You need not dread that this kind of work will make your boy unmanly or effeminate.

It will rather teach him to be more considerate of women, more appreciative of the amount that his mother and sisters have to do, and less careless in imposing needless labor upon them.
Some mothers go so far as to instruct their sons in the delicate tasks of darning stockings, and repairing rents in their own clothes.

There is a vast difference in the skill manifested by different boys.