“ Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power. ”
Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (1875). copy citation
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
|---|---|
| Source | Eight Cousins |
| Topic | confidence power |
| Date | 1875 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2726/2726-h/2726-h.htm |
Context
“even if there was, it don't seem as if it would be easy to talk to them, because we've never got into the way of it, you know.”
Poor Mac was right there, and expressed a want that many a boy and girl feels. Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power. So the young hearts hide trouble or temptation till the harm is done, and mutual regret comes too late. Happy the boys and girls who tell all things freely to father or mother, sure of pity, help, and pardon;”
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