Always Keep Faith.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue XXIV, 10 December 1904, Page 63

Always Keep Faith.

Many a woman, who would not think of lightly breaking a promise made to a grownup person, is utterly careless about keeping her word with her chil-

dren. She promises whatever is convenient at the moment, and apparently thinks that the breaking or keeping of

those promises is a matter in which she <an please herself, and that her children have no right to consider themselves

aggrieved if she does not do so. A mother who acts thus does her child grievous harm. She forgets that the sense of justice is strong in quite a little child, and that it is natural and reasonable that he should expect his parents to be as good as their word, and to fulfil their promises even at the cost of convenience. Promises should not be lightly broken, and the parent who is guilty of this soon loses his children’s confidence, which is one of the sweetest things our little ones can give us.

AVhen boys and girls learn to doubt their parents' truthfulness, they soon look around for someone else whom they can trust, and on that person they ■shower their affection and bestow their confidence.