Excerpt from The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend: January 1845, to June 1845 The portraits are drawn from the inmates of a boarding-school, as it is easier to study human nature as it presents itself unchecked in its tendencies in youth. The principle maintained by the author is, that the great' responsibility of mak ing man or woman what they should be, rests not upon teachers, but upon parents, and upon them alone, and that God will hold them thus responsible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Mother's Assistant: And Young Lady's Friend Deeply interesting and soul-absorbing as the formation of your children's characters is to you, you are in danger of feeling an ex cess of anxiety, which, by making you really unhappy, may do much to defeat its own object. We wish to see our children good and happy. We tell them that to be good, is the way to be happy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.