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Topic: children
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“You must try to invent means of correcting your children, but remember that the most powerful means are rewards: a kind word, an approving glance, a little gesture, is sometimes sufficient to correct what the most severe punishment would not have overcome.”
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“Oh, if you could understand the feelings of a mother's heart for a child which is not hers by nature but by grace - the feelings of the heart, I say for the temporal but more especially for the eternal happiness of her child - you would understand what I feel for you.”
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“You must also accustom yourselves, my dear children, to bear in mind that if the faults of others displease us, ours also torment them.”
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“Never scold nor punish more than the fault deserves. Children naturally love justice even when it punishes them.”
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“I believe one learns to appreciate her Mother more and more when one is so far away from her.”
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“...ours is the preparation for the generation that will succeed us, and eminent good will be done this way by us.”
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“There are very few persons who understand how difficult it is to serve their neighbor, and nearly everybody imagines that it is a very easy thing to raise children.”
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Teacher’s School Prayer
The following is a prayer from a teacher’s perspective written by Sister Ann Casper. O God,is that piercing sound really the alarm clock?And is this really the first day of…
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Child’s prayer heading into school
The following is a prayer from a child’s perspective. Dear God, I’m a little sad tonight. I just looked at the calendar and it told me it is August. Do…
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Father’s Day Prayer
Provident God,
Creator and Sustainer of all life,
thank You for my father whose life reflects/reflected
Your abiding love and care.
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