The new parent's assistant / by Stephen Paget.

  • Stephen Paget
Date:
1914
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Credit: The new parent's assistant / by Stephen Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that evening, in the drawing-room, will surely find some way of suggesting to them that they are indeed the efficient cause of her offence. For, if it had not been for them, she would never have been born to wish that she had never been born. He can hardly fail to get them to agree to that. They will make up their minds that something must be done; but nothing in a hurry. My ghost must not be too sanguine. Holding fast this theory, bearing all your weight on the assurance that our children’s miseries are of our making, father or mother, whichever you are, say what is to be done. Where is the path of atonement, the wray of amends ? It goes from us to them ; we must examine ourselves, not them, to find it. We require, therefore, not more child-study, but more parent-study. The child—that is what the believers in child-study dare to call my children. As if anybody could study that. The oyster we can study, because all oysters are so alike. But we cannot study the child, or the parent; only children and parents. Let each of us, to begin with, study and examine that one parent whom each of us best understands. But the intricacies of self are closer twisted than the maze at Hampton Court. One must have a guide. At Hampton Court, there is the man on the little plat- form, just outside the maze and just above it. When we are tired of missing our way, he shouts at us, directing
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