Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare].

  • Louisa Gurney Hoare
Date:
1822
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will become scenes of insubordination or sources of disappointment, if autho- rity be opposed to authority, and influ- ence counteract influence. A judicious mother will, therefore, keep the reins in her own hands; she will be the only source of power; and her assistants should exercise authority, whether more or less, simply as derived- from her, and in subjection to her. If, at any time, they assume a power which does not be- long to them'; if they take more than is given; they outstep the bounds of duty, 4nd, in that proportion diminish their value to the parent, and their usefulness to the children. On the other hand, an assistant should receive the unvarying support and sanction of a mother, whilst acting within the prescribed limits and exercising that portion of authority, which has been confided to her. To lay down these limits—to determine what should be this portion, requires an exer-