Teaching the Children to Help

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 6, 1907

Teaching the Children to Help

A WRITER in Housewife says: “Many mothers, overworked and longing for relief, do not realize that at hand they have a large reserve force of unskilled, but willing and affectionate labor. The little ones who add so largely to our duties are the very ones who, if directed rightly, will spring to our relief and ease the heat and burden of our day wonderfully. It is the ‘step, step’ about the housework that is so fatiguing; the larger tasks, gone systematically about, are not so exhausting; but the various little, uncounted things which, if not done, show so blackly on a background of otherwise good housekeeping, and the doing or not doing of these is what tries our nerves and our tempers. Without in the least overworking the child, its little hands and feet can yet be made of great help to us, and even a very young child will save many steps if properly set about it. The tiny feet must trot, and they will cross the room many times joyously if the little one can feel that he is working for mama.”—Selected.