Parents should not forget their childhood years, how much they yearned for sympathy and love, and how unhappy they felt when censured and fretfully chided.
Parents! give your children love: love in babyhood, love in childhood, love in youth (teen years).
Children, between babyhood and (adult), do not generally receive the attention that they should have.
When the children are tired and really need [a parent's] care, they are neglected or given something to eat... What they did need was the mother's soothing embrace.
Every mother should have time to give her children little endearments which are so essential during infancy and childhood. ...She is to them what God is to us.
The more unlovely [the children] are, the greater pains you should take to reveal your love for them. When the child has confidence that you want to make him/her happy, love will break every barrier down.
It is by beholding love in their parents that children are led to obey the fifth commandment... "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
Selections from Adventist Home chapter 31, E G White
Parents! give your children love: love in babyhood, love in childhood, love in youth (teen years).
Children, between babyhood and (adult), do not generally receive the attention that they should have.
When the children are tired and really need [a parent's] care, they are neglected or given something to eat... What they did need was the mother's soothing embrace.
Every mother should have time to give her children little endearments which are so essential during infancy and childhood. ...She is to them what God is to us.
The more unlovely [the children] are, the greater pains you should take to reveal your love for them. When the child has confidence that you want to make him/her happy, love will break every barrier down.
It is by beholding love in their parents that children are led to obey the fifth commandment... "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
Selections from Adventist Home chapter 31, E G White
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Some timeless words of wisdom in these passages! Thanks for sharing them with us.
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