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Don'ts for Mothers

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 29.

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Don'ts for Mothers

DON'T fail to insist on good table manners. They are so easily taught and promptly acquired.
DON'T make a promise unless you are sure you can fulfil it. Should some untoward reason prevent you from so doing, apologize to your child as courteously as you would wish him to apologize to you. Like begets like.
DON'T give your children a chance to question your absolute justice. Children have long memories.
DON'T deceive your children when a physician or a dentist is required. Tell them the truth, and give them your moral support.
DON'T tolerate "whining" or "talebearing."
DON'T fail to instil honor and truthfulness. To "face the music" often requires courage, but it pays.
DON'T fail to teach kindness to all dumb creatures.
DON'T scoff at the tribulations of little people. They suffer very keenly.
DON'T forget that when the ten-year milestone is reached, the personal education between mother and child should be very nearly perfect.
DON'T forget that school life opens a new world. Fit your child to enter it morally as well as mentally.
DON'T send your child to the first school which comes handy. Remember that much depends upon its daily association.
DON'T fail to invite your children's confidence. Live so close to their hearts that all sense of years is obliterated.
DON'T strive to divert a natural desire to learn the why and the wherefore of our be-ing. Make the story so beautifully chaste, so true, that it becomes a matter of course.
Don't as you value your motherhood, and would bind your children to you, permit others to make these precious disclosures.—Selected.