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Homelessness 197
way, parents would not do it, if the best in-
terests of the children were taken into account.
Elders may speak of industry as much as
they like ; if the father’s and mother’s work for
children has no reality about it, the parents
would do best to be silent. The same must
be said of warnings and arbitrary prohibitions
to children concerning the satisfaction of their
desire for enjoyment, if the parents them-
selves do not influence the children by their
own example.
On the other hand there are just as disturb-
ing consequences when industrious parents
conceal their self-denial from their children,
when they deprive themselves in the effort
to spare their children the knowledge that their
parents are not in a position to clothe them
as well as their companions or to give them
the same pleasures. Least of all is home life
successful in helping children through the dif-
ficulties of their earlier years, when discipline
has killed confidence between them and their
parents, when they become insincere from want
of courage and careless from want of freedom
;
when parents present themselves to the child-
ren as exceptional beings, asking for blind
reverence and absolute subjection. From such
homes in old days fine men and women could
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