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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    ing wrong habits, because they are the common practice, and regulating her own conduct by the low standard of others. “ It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.” True fidelity regards not only the property of employers, but the time, the care, which are due to them; and such are the duties of a nurse, that they will not lie faithfully performed, unless her heart interested in their discharge. A servant who con- siders them a task, from which she is ever glad to be freed, in order to pursue other objects, is wholly unfit for her station. A conscientious nurse, there- fore, will be cautious lest her own in- terests, pleasures, or even her sorrows, should so absorb the mind as to inter- fere with the performance of positive duties towards those committed to her care. Their welfare will be ever kept in view. She will be always unwilling to leave them, for any concern of her