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

  • Louisa Gurney Hoare
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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    the necessary result of those principles which have before been stated as the foundation of all our relative duties. ]\Iany nurses acting thus, are orna- ments to society, and treasures to their employers; but that a number are influ- enced by motives far inferior, we have too much proof, not only in our nur- series, but also in the streets and public walks. Do not the showy dress; the flippant, vain, and flirting air; the man- ner evidently designed to attract notice; the attention occupied with self; the difference of demeanour in the presence and absence of the mother; the rough handling, and hasty words dispensed to their little ones upon every slight offence; —does not such a deportment bespeak a mind unprepared for the important duties of a nurse, and looking little higher than to self-interest or pecuniary recompence ? It is not intended to imply, that such servants are devoid of 1