Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated

RESPONSIBILITY.--The Police Court. The widow and her daughter. Effect of a child's conduct upon the happiness of its parents. The young sailor. The condemned pirate visited by his parents. Consequences of disobedience. A mother's grave. The sick child. . .7

Chapters

14. CHAPTER VI.

In the last chapter I have endeavored to show you in what your sin principally consists; and also the interest which God feels in your happiness, and the sacrifice he has made t...

15. CHAPTER VII.

Every child must observe how much more happy and beloved some children appear to be than others. There are some children you always love to be with. They are happy themselves, a...

13. CHAPTER V.

In this chapter I shall take up the subject of religion. That you may understand your duties, it is important that you should first understand your own character in the sight of...

12. CHAPTER IV.

There is hardly any subject upon which children in well-regulated families feel more like complaining-, than of the unwillingness of their parents to indulge them, in evening pl...

8. CHAPTER I.

In large cities there are so many persons guilty of crimes, that it is necessary to have a court sit every day to try those who are accused of breaking the laws. This court is c...

9. CHAPTER II.

George, when a little boy, had received from his father a hatchet, and he, much pleased with his present, walked around the house trying its keen edge upon every thing which cam...

10. CHAPTER III.

In the chapters you have now read, I have endeavored to show you how much your own happiness, and that of your parents, depend upon your conduct. And I trust every child who has...

11. did. He had been absent six months before his parents ascertained

what had become of him. He had changed his name; but, getting into some difficulty, in consequence of which he must go to jail, unless he could find friends, he was constrained...

7. Chapter VII.

TRAITS OF CHARACTER.--We cannot be happy without friends. Why scholars are unpopular in school. The way to gain friends. The warm fire. Playing ball. Recipe for children who wou...

6. Chapter VI.

PIETY.--Penitence. Charles Bullard. His good character in school. In college. The pious boy. The orchard. The fishing-rod. The forgiving spirit. How children may do good. The En...

4. Chapter IV.

OBEDIENCE, continued.--The moonlight game. Reasons why good parents will not allow their children to play in the streets in the evening. The evening walk. The terrified girl, In...

3. Chapter III.

OBEDIENCE.--Firmness requisite in doing duty. The irresolute boy. The girl and the green apples. Temptations. Evening party. Important consequences resulting from slight disobed...

5. Chapter V.

RELIGIOUS TRUTH.--Human character. The Northern Voyagers. Imaginary scene in a court of justice. Love of God. Scene from Shakspeare. Efforts to save us. The protection of angels...

2. Chapter II.

DECEPTION.--George Washington and his hatchet.--Consequences of deception. Temptations to deceive. Story of the child sent on an errand. Detection. Anecdote. The dying child. Pe...

1. Chapter I.

RESPONSIBILITY.--The Police Court. The widow and her daughter. Effect of a child's conduct upon the happiness of its parents. The young sailor. The condemned pirate visited by h...