The feelings and emotions inducted within the children by the contagion of sympathy are unhectic, sound, and wholesome.
The suggestions of such a home are in right directions, its unconscious models worthy of imitation.
Its authority is reasonable, its spirit that of mutual affection, its members are friends and comrades who stick together in work and in play.

In such a home the kingdom of God begins to come on earth,

that Kingdom which will come fully when all men realize that they have one Father and are brethren.
To such a home many of us can look back, and we thank God that it imparted its spirit, not just by precept or instruction, but by the uncounted, unintended vital influences of its atmosphere.
Text from “ The Training of Children in the Christian Home” by Luther Allan Weigle.

Commit to your own success.

Shoot for the highest possible goal.

Take yourself seriously.

Get rid of the physical irritations: do it.
Face the fear of success: overcome it.

Let go of things that don’t belong to you.

Be enthusiastic! Overzealous! Passionate! Annoying! Go for it!
You’re not just like everybody else.

You’re not a cynic; you’re a dreamer.

Dream without reservation.
Write without hearing the critic’s voice.
Act without questioning your ability.
Be true and real and honest.
If it isn’t working, kill it.

Start over. Commit.

Dream. Speak your dreams.
Believe. Reach. Don’t stop.
Failure is not inevitable. Obstacles are part of the process.

With diligence, success IS inevitable.

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…it is upon the mothers of the present that the future depends… because it is the mothers who have the sole direction of the children’s early, most impressible years.

…And they [must] take it [motherhood] up as their profession – that is, with the same diligence, regularity, and punctuality which men bestow on their professional labours.

Nothing is trivial that concerns a child.

{Charlotte Mason, Home Education}

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