And it is one that you will find very hard to correct.

You must give them a great deal of good counsel on the subject, and, above all, you must be careful to set them a good example yourselves.

Children always imitate what they see in their mothers, whether it is good or bad.

If you are always amiable and kind to one another, they will be so too." The thoughtful mother, in following out the suggestions here given, will see at once how the interest which the children take in their dolls, and the sense of reality which they feel in respect to all their dealings with them, opens before her a boundless field in respect to modes of reaching and influencing their minds and hearts.
_The Ball itself made to teach Carefulness_.
There is literally no end to the modes by which persons having the charge of young children can avail themselves of their vivid imaginative powers in inculcating moral lessons or influencing their conduct.

A boy, we will suppose, has a new ball.