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Child Guidance
their own accounts. They may go forward, advancing step by step in
this knowledge
Let children be taught to keep an account. This will enable them
to be accurate. The spendthrift boy will be the spendthrift man. The
vain, selfish, self-caring girl will be the same kind of woman. We are
to remember there are other youth for whom we are accountable. If
we train our children to correct habits, through them we shall be able
to influence others
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9
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 168, 169
.
10
Letter 11, 1888
.