16/21 Do I, by my conversation and actions, teach my children that character, and not wealth or connexions, constitutes respectability? Do I realize what circumstances are educating my children;--my conversation, my pursuits, my likings, and dislikings? Do I realize that the most important book a child can and does read, is its parents' daily deportment and example? Do my children feel they can do what they like, or that they must do what they are commanded? Have I felt that a timid child is in great danger of being insincere? |