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_Spurgeon said_: ”With children we entleness with firmness; they must not always have their oay, but they h rebuking therow up If you yield up your authority once, you will hardly ever get it again”

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Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by proper discipline

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My dearest pastime is with children

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Children are poorhas a better effect upon children than praise

--_Sir P Sidney_

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_Their Little Needs_--It is often asserted that both s but for children They call out, and refine, and soften the best feelings of the parental heart Their little needs are so , and their very caprices so winning, that love and attention flow out to them almost instinctively

That must be a hardened nature which can be unmoved by the soft touch, the playful childishness, and the hundred little pranks of a baby

--_Unknown_

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You can not expect better manners from your children than you teach them They iht early to sympathize with the defors: A little dwarfed girl in one of our great cities coo because she was so weary of being laughed at and ridiculed by her associates in the streets and at school

An old street pedlar was set upon by school children and so annoyed and misused that he beca preacher recently called upon an eminent Divine, and in the course of conversation asked him how many children he had ”Four, sir,”

was the reply At the supper-table, the visitor perceived two beautiful children seated by the side of the ht you had four children, sir: Where are the other two?” Lifting his eyes, the holy man of God pointed upwards, while a sweet smile broke over his countenance ”They are in Heaven,” he repeated slowly and calone before”