Do we not often use an arbitrary and a threatening manner in our commands to children, when a calm, gentle request, in a tone of expectant confidence, would gain obedience far more quickly and pleasantly?
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic (1892), HOW SHALL WE GOVERN OUR CHILDREN?. Written in English. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10335/pg10335-images.html
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