It permits a man to make free choice of obedience rather than compels him to obey."
"Perhaps parents, great as they are and should be in the eyes of their children, should always keep well to the front the fact that their authority is derived." [from God]
[Think: character training w/o the weekly character quality/bulletin board/coloring page.]
the habit of sweet thoughts must be kept up, and every selfish, resentful, unamiable movement of children's minds observed in the countenance must be changed before consciousness sets in."