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The Duties of Parents is the best known-known work of Dutch Further reformation leader Jacobus Koelman. Outlining 282 guidelines for Christian parenting, Koelman emphasizes the need for loving, thoughtful discipline. He describes the need for good schools and teachers and encourages the latter to realize their great responsibility. The Duties of Parents gives readers an important glimpse at the...

is not careful with respect to nutrition, agitation, physical activities, and the like, that is most harmful to the unborn child. This makes the Lord angry and is attended by misfortunes and diseases. It also runs contrary to natural affection for the unborn child. 9. When the child has been born, let the mother herself breast-feed it, if she in any way has the strength and ability to do so. This demands love for the child and increases mutual love between the mother and the child. It is by far the
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