Page 8 - Instruction for Parents

foand has its price and deep value. As an old saying goes:
„What costs nothing is worth nothing.“ Do not lose courage
and faith when it will take years for your love and patience to
bear fruit. Maybe they were smiled at pityingly and trampled
on. Dear parents, then you have surely grown, matured and
been polished by it yourselves, and have gained more insight
into many matters – yes indeed, through your silent example
in the practice of virtue you have softened many a heart, given
it food for thought and even converted it.

The child’s tender and delicately strung nature does not fail to
notice this behaviour of his mother – of his father. An example
for which he will be grateful all his life.

Being wife and mother is a high task – an honour and a great
duty which you have taken on. The same goes for the father,
but it is above all the mother who should ask for the necessary
gifts and talents, and in addition, for a lot of good sense. Be-
cause without this good sense many things will not work in the
family.

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