Sufficient exercise will supply many defects in nursing, but nothing can compensate for its want.

A good constitution ought certainly to be our first object in the management of children.

It lays a foundation for their being useful and happy in life; and whoever neglects it, not only fails in his duty to his offspring, but to society.
While this is forgotten, let us not complain of weak and thoughtless children, or of weak and thoughtless servants; for the former are so from the neglect of their parents and the public; and the latter from not having been taught to think at all--and yet the very persons that object to the education of the poor are the first to complain of their servants.
A notion that habits of industry must be established, has, however, been the means, I regret to state, of a sad perversion of the system in these respects.

The time allowed for amusement and exercise has been in some cases, very much abridged that the children might learn and practise sewing, knitting, plaiting, &c.

Now, no one can be more disposed to the encouragement of industrious habits than myself, but I would say not at the expense of health; which I am certain, in these cases it must be.