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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

is no longer possible, is he well prepared to take up the responsibility of guiding his own life? He would be better prepared if he had become accustomed little by little to meet the difficul­ties of life himself; if his parents in little things and for short times had trusted him to do right without their presence to check him or remind him. This mistaken kindness does not make a manly boy, nor prepare him for the time when he must assume the responsibilities of a man. To take one practical example. We want the children, when they grow up, to be honest and careful in the use of money. Shall we prepare them for the responsibility by always taking care of the money ourselves, always buying for them and deciding for them what to buy? Or will it be better for them gradually to learn the value of money by earning a little themselves, and to learn 46 THE TRANSITION to use it carefully by giving and spending of their own with some guiding advice from us? It is no doubt easier to do it all ourselves, but there can be no question which course

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