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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: duty to their children, and who end by neither making their children
happy nor having a tolerable life for themselves. A selfish tyrant
you know where to have, and he (or she) at least does not confuse your
affections; but a conscientious and kindly meddler may literally worry
you out of your senses. It is fortunate that only very few parents
are capable of doing what they conceive their duty continuously or
even at all, and that still fewer are tough enough to ride roughshod
over their children at home.
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But please observe the limitation "at home." What private amateur
parental enterprise cannot do may be done very effectively by
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