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ON THE TRAINING OF PARENTS

by

ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT


   "And they shall live with their children."


[Illustration: Logo]






Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright 1908 by Ernest Hamlin Abbott
All Rights Reserved

Published April 1908

Tenth Impression




     _No man has the right to dedicate to another what is not his own.
     All that is mine in this little book is its infelicities. These
     I dedicate to oblivion. The rest belongs to those two women from
     whom I, as son and as husband, have learned all that I know of the
     training of parents._




CONTENTS


  I. SPASM AND HABIT