Endeavor to train them from their infancy to these religious habits, and when they grow up, they will persevere in them. Accustom them also to go to confession and communion every week. It is also very useful to infuse good maxims into the infant minds of children. God is merciful, He takes compassion on certain sins. How miserable the young man is who sins in obedience to such maxims.
Good parents teach very different maxims to their children.
Everything on this earth has an end, but eternity never ends. Let all be lost, provided God is not lost. One of these maxims well impressed on the mind of a young person, will preserve him always in the grace of God. But parents are obliged to instruct their children in the practice of virtue, not only by words, but still more by example. The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach .