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Show HOME EDUCATION. - One of the most important duties of the matron or mother of a family, and for which she should always arrange to have time is the home education of children. By this we do not mean a routine of lessons from books, but that beneficial oral instruction, those practical lessons on the duties of life which should pervade entirely her intercourse with her children. It is thus that the lessons of love, forbearance, truth, kindness, self-denial and generosity may be deeply impressed on the ductile mind, and the seed of true piety and upright behavior scatted carefully over the prepared soil. The first care should be to distinguish between the different dispositions which nature has give to children - to strengthen the weak and vacillating, soften the obdurate, encourage the timid and repress the forward - to eradicate weeds and sow the good seed. |