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Nothing has a better effect upon children than praise.
—Sir P. Sidney.
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Their Little Needs—It is often asserted that both men and women would be selfish beings but for children. They call out, and refine, and soften the best feelings of the parental heart. Their little needs are so many, and their simple ignorance so affecting, and their very caprices so winning, that love and attention flow out to them almost instinctively.
That must be a hardened nature which can be unmoved by the soft touch, the playful childishness, and the hundred little pranks of a baby.
—Unknown.
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You can not expect better manners from your children than you teach them. They imitate instinctively.