By suffering pleasure to lure you--by following the follies of fashion, or by the charm of those baubles which the world presents to the eye, but keeps from your grasp--you may neglect your child.

But you have neglected a plain and positive duty--a duty which is engraven on your heart and wound into your nature: and a duty neglected is sure, sooner or later, to come back again as an avenger to punish; while, on the other hand, a duty performed to the best of the ability returns back to the performer laden with a blessing.
But it may be said, how are children to be trained in order that happiness may be the result?
It is quite impossible to lay down rules for the management of children; since those which would serve for guidance in regulating the conduct of one child, would work the worst results when applied to another.

But we mention a few particulars.
The grand secret in the management of children is to treat them as reasonable beings.

We see that they are governed by hope, fear, and love: these feelings, then, should be made the instruments by which their education is conducted.

Whenever it is possible (and it is very rarely that it is not), a reason should be given for every requirement, and a motive for the undertaking any task: this would lead the child to see that nothing was demanded out of caprice or whim, but that it was a requirement involving happiness as well as duty.
This method would also teach the child to reverence and respect the parent.