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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: expected to create a specially warm affection. Such a relation is
dangerously factitious and unnatural; and the practical moral is that
the less said at home about specific family affection the better.
Children, like grown-up people, get on well enough together if they
are not pushed down one another's throats; and grown-up relatives will
get on together in proportion to their separation and their care not
to presume on their blood relationship. We should let children's
feelings take their natural course without prompting. I have seen a
child scolded and called unfeeling because it did not occur to it to
make a theatrical demonstration of affectionate delight when its
mother returned after an absence: a typical example of the way in
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