Yet the labor begun in the classroom or at home is easily lost if one does not bear true to the other. For it is unchangeably true that the child who is not being raised to a higher and higher level will sink to a lower and lower level.40 There is a certain amount of strenuousness in forming habits as one acts contrary to one’s nature. Charlotte Mason admonished the parent and teacher to use tact, watchfulness, and persistence in forming habits with a twofold policy: • Never let the child slip from his responsibility in the habit. • Never let the matter be a cause of friction between you and
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