A Wise Resolve

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 18, 1907

It was a wise mother who said, “I mean to keep young with my children.” She gave the recipe by which this can be done: Live in the present, not in the past; be always interested in whatever the children are interested in, so that they are always sure of finding a proper understanding when they come to mother with their perplexities. Living too continually in the past, comparing things done to-day with the way they were done yesterday, and insisting that former days were better than the present, will inevitably make it difficult to feel in full sympathy with the youth of to-day. The resolve to keep young with the children may mean at first some self-denial; but the reward that will come in a sweeter, more sympathetic intimacy with the children and a greater influence in their lives will many times repay the self-denial.— Selected.