A Mother’s Duty by Sharlot M. Hall

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 14, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 15.

A Mother’s Duty

By Sharlot M. Hall

EVERY mother should herself give her children, both boys and girls, this knowledge [of the mystery of life] by the time they are

ten years old, or twelve at the farthest. Not fully, perhaps, but by degrees. Show them the wonders of plant life, and lead up so to the higher.

Boys need this home training far more than girls, for they come earlier in rough contact with the world, and see and hear so much that is spared their sisters. Older boys are all too ready to teach the little ones evil things, and grown men are brutally careless of their words and actions. Many a boy has ruined mind and body in his pitiful ignorance and before his parents would have believed the thing possible.—Sharlot M. Hall.