Letícia Lyria’s Reviews > Formation of Character > Status Update

Let them perceive... the cloud that falls on the parent's heart when the love of the child is restrained. Natural reticence and pride incline us to ...to make no sign of the pain caused by their thoughtless omissions. But these barriers of reserve should be broken down for the sake of the children...because no education tells so much as this education of the power of loving.

Few things could be more disastrous (as, alas, few are more imminent) than a sudden break with the traditions of the past; ..: It is well that we gather up, with tender reverence, such fragments of their insight and experience as come in our way; for we would fain, each, be as an householder, bringing forth out of his treasures things new and old.

"Half an hour is nothing to speak of; in pleasant chat, over an amusing book, the thirty minutes fly like five; but half an hour in struggle with a raging child is a day and a night in length."