The home training of children : a practical manual for parents / by Amy B. Barnard.
- Barnard, Amy B. (Amy Beatrice), 1862-
- Date:
- [1910]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The home training of children : a practical manual for parents / by Amy B. Barnard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![hold joy and health for her dear ones. The strength of a nation lies not in the might of its army, the size of its battle-fleet, the extent of its rule, the wealth in its pocket, but in its ideal of home and its capacity for materialising that ideal. And this is attained, how ? By the strongest force in the world—love. We see that in the well-known picture of the bereft husband sitting with his motherless little ones round the cottage table trying to fill the mother’s place, or when we watch the father of a happy brood of youngsters kissing them good-bye as they start for school, or both visiting them in turn for a final tuck-in at night and a whispered prayer for their future; or, again, drying childish tears, helping over a hard bit of study, gently reproving a fault, encouraging the timid, counselling boy and girl in the difficulties they must meet. We can easily clothe Solomon’s virtuous woman in twentieth-century dress, set her in a London suburban home, and transpose the key of her virtues to suit the conditions of modern life. ]STo father! no mother! Maimed at the start—the best of life’s beginning missed! The world should be very considerate, very tender to the fatherless and motherless who begin life’s race so handicapped. Those who live in honest poverty rarely do need to be reminded of this duty; deprivation is a keen sharpener of sympathy. But what of the idle rich who lavish on pet dogs and cats the love and care for which a child with a soul is perishing ?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28717454_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
