Parenting Advice

[MawagaMom]

1. Children need a regular routine in daily life.

2. Parents must first conquer the will in order to fashion the minds of their children.

3. Children can be taught early to ask politely for what they want.

4. A child ffound guilt of wrrong doing should not be punished if he confessed to his wrong and promised to amend.

5. No act such as lying, pilfering, disobedience, or quarreling should be permitted to pass unpunished.

6. A child should not be punished twice for the same act of disobedience.

7. Act so fobedience ought to be rewarded frequently.

8. In anything done to please, though the performance may not be well, the child should be tenderly directed how to do better.

9. A child must be taught rights of property belonging to self and others.

10. a child must be taught that promises are to be strictly observed.

 

~ Susannah Wesley - 18th century mother of nine