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

  • Hoare, Mrs. (Louisa Gurney), 1784-1836.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eminently deficient; and their good qua- lities tarnished by a self-importance, and adherence to their own opinions, mani- fested even toward the Mother and her friends. Such a temper of mind, by in- spiring the servant with undue confidence in her own judgment, independent of that of her mistress, is very unfavourable to the fixed determination which should actuate every nurse; to execute, as far as possible, the will of a Mother towards her children, when out of her sight; and to be exactly the same to them in her ab- sence as in her presence. This is a law of primary and essential importance; a directing principle forthe management of a nursery. If a nurse, on the unexpected appearance of her mistress experience a secret aukwardness—if she involuntarily change her manner or tone of voice, let her carefully examine if all is quite right, and set a stricter watch upon herself; let her inquire ifshe may not be blindly adopt-