"Stay-at-Home Parent" Investing In The Character Of Future Generations

Children and youth are benefited by being trusted. Many, even young children, have a high sense of honor; all desire to be treated with confidence and respect, and this is their right. They should not be led to feel that they can't go out or come in without being watched. Suspicion demoralizes, producing the very evils it seeks to prevent....Lead the youth to feel that they are trusted, and there are few who will not seek to prove themselves worthy of the trust. #ChildGuidance ,page 158. . Learn the Disposition of Each Child—Children must have constant care, but you need not let them see that you are ever guarding them. Learn the disposition of each as revealed in their association with one another, and then seek to correct their faults by encouraging opposite traits. #ChildGuidance ,page 206.