We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.


Sermons Out of Church (1875)


We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices...

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices...

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices...

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices...