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198 The Century of the Child
proceed, but now extremely seldom. Young
people recognise in our days no such require-
ments; confidential intercourse with parents
has robbed them of this nimbus of infallibility.
Homes which send out men and women with
the strongest morality, with the freshest
stimulus to work, are those where children and
parents are companions in labour, where they
stand on the same level, w^here, like a good elder
sister or an elder brother, parents regard the
younger members of the household as their
equals; where parents by being children with
the children, being youthful with young peo-
ple, help those who are growing up, without
the exercise of force, to develop into human
beings, always treating them as human beings.
In a home like this nothing is especially ar-
ranged for children; they are regarded not as
belonging to one kind of being while parents
represent another, but parents gain the respect
of their children by being true and natural;
they live and conduct themselves in such a
way that the children gain an insight into
their work, their efforts, and as far as possible
into their joys and pains, their mistakes and
failures. Such parents without artificial con-
descension or previous consideration gain the
sympathy of children and unconsciously edu-
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