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* Education i75
daughter, said not long ago that she desired
to erect an asylum for tormented daughters.
Such an asylum would be as necessary as a
protection against pampering parents as
against those who are overbearing. Both
alike, torture their children though in different
ways, by not understanding the child’s right
to have his own point of view, his own ideal of
happiness, his own proper tastes and occupa-
tion. They do not see that children exist as
little for their parent’s sake as parents do for
their children’s sake. Family life would have
an intelligent character if each one lived fully
and entirely his own life and allowed the others
to do the same. None should tyrannise over,
nor should suffer tyranny from, the other.
Parents who give their home this character can
justly demand that children shall accommodate
themselves to the habits of the household as
long as they live in it. Children on their part
can ask that their own life of thought and feel-
ing shall be left in peace at home, or that they
be treated with the same consideration that
would be given to a stranger. When the par-
ents do not meet these conditions they them-
selves are the greater sufferers. It is very
easy to keep one’s son from expressing his raw
views, very easy to tear a daughter away from
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