more Charlotte Mason wisdom

"We are not unwilling to make efforts in thebeginning with the assurance that by-and-by things will go smoothly; andthis is just what habit is, in an extraordinary degree, pledged to effect.The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take careof themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children." (Vol.1, p. 136).