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A Word to Mothers

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 31, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 31.

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A Word to Mothers

If I might write only one more sentence during my life, it would be this: Let the mothers of this land be the chosen confidantes and companions of their daughters. There is something wrong in every mother, how good soever she may be, whose young daughter cannot lay her head on her lap and, without fear of reproach or repulse, give expression to her full thoughts.
That mother may, or may not, approve her daughter’s wish or opinion; she may think it premature, or every way unadvisable; but O, the relief and safety to that daughter, that she may “tell mother”! Let the two talk it over together, as young companions do—honestly and frankly.—New York Ledger.