Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-02-28
Our Children.

Mothers. what are you doing for you
children, that will help their futurep II
is great question with me, and while
try to give help to others on this question
hope other mothers will try to help me.
Some write of one thing and some Of an.
other, but to me the one thing 10 how tc
mould and fit for active life and never
ending future. the children G cd has given
me.
There is in the life of nearly all children
a time when but one person really
understands them, and sometimes not
even one. They are all corners, and
lways finding corners; they are either
full of mischief, or annoyance of a worse
nature; they feel in the way; know their
own awkwardness and do not know Of q
remedy for it. At this time of life there
are more lost than at any other. This is
| he time when they are too large to pet
and have not attained enough ofrednemsnt
to make them pleasant companions. Then
their laugh, words and actions ut 10 par
tcularly so with boys) are coarse and
rude TO greater or less extent. What Is
! the remedyp
There is way some mothers do of
turning their children out to find some one
else to endure them since their own friends
cannot. The present relief obtained in
that s0ay is often the shadow of coming
sorrow, and if we could see the ruin in
prospect, we certainly should not act so
hastily. / sometimes think there is more
need of repentance for oarelessness and
rashness than for willful sin; but some-
times, like Esau, they seek fer 4 but ind
it not. 1t is too late. Anxiety for my
own has made me seek for remedy; it
no new one, Only to create an interest
in something which will keep the mind
lpure and the hands full. We are told OF
school and mnsic,bu that is only part of
what is needful, and some will say lectures,
concerts and shows. The last named !
will not attend myself, and should blush
to think my children we're there. The
other two in this day need some winnow.
ing, if you would preserve your child in q
God fearing purity. But first class
concert or lecture is usually instructive
land elevating and that is the only kind
my children could attend, and only in
company with their parents then other
company, if honest, would not be ashamed
of us. This principle has been treated
more as theory than as fact, and Of
course has to be differently applied te
different people.
think personal friendships with ones
children very desirable; making mother
! or father the receiver of all their knowl
edge, both good and bad, from their day.
of babyhood to the day that they 90 out t
form new homes Of their own. Another
thing have found for my girls especially
that is helpful in forming their character,
: is talking to them about such things n
they will need when they have homes o.
their own and teaching them how to make
things useful and convenient for theil
homes. Making this fancy fact by giving
them all the things that they will make
for their own and from the smallest to the
largest pieces have taught them to take
pride in doing the work well and it has
created very worthy ambition with
them and as they put away one thing
after another in the trunks they have had
! given them for that purpose. they accom-
plish three things: First, it kesp, them In
home company without force and they are
under mothers eye and voice; second,
) they are acquiring good knowledge OF
useful and needful work; third, they are
collecting things for the future, slowly but
surely, which will be great help to the
r fneness of the future home whether made
by themselves or others.
; HEARTsEAsE.
p. S. This article seems to run to
girls; but l have boy and may write
about boys sometime, but will wait and
see where this goes.