“Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.” ChildrenCharacterParentHoursDependsHabit Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.” ChildrenReadingCommonFailingHabitAcquireDefectsMonstrous Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.” WayFirstsChildrenRunningMotherPurposeGrowsSuccessfulFireHabitCommandPerpetualRight WayTeaseSecured Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.” ChildrenPainMotherEasyHabitSmoothGood HabitsEasy Days Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series