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Books on Parenting
Raising children in the home: catechizing, discipline, and the formation of young minds and hearts.
The Instruction of a Christian Woman
Juan Luis Vives · 1524 AD — a Renaissance humanist's guide to the Christian woman's life as a girl, a wife and a widow.
Domestic Duties
William Gouge · 1622 AD — a full Puritan manual on duties among husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, and servants.
Domestic Duties: For Parents
William Gouge · 1622 AD — the parents' calling to raise children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
The School of Infancy
Jan Amos Comenius · 1633 AD — a handbook for raising children through their first six years.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism for Kids
Westminster Assembly · 1647 AD — the Shorter Catechism's 107 questions rewritten for children to understand.
A Christian Directory, Volume 3: Governing the Household
Richard Baxter · 1673 AD — directions for choosing a spouse and ordering the duties of husbands, wives, and servants.
The Catechizing of Families
Richard Baxter · 1683 AD — a household catechism in forty-seven chapters for teaching the faith under one's roof.
Household Education
Harriet Martineau · 1849 AD — Martineau's guide to educating children through reason and moral training.
Letters to a Daughter
William Sprague · 1850 AD — Sprague's letters of fatherly counsel to his motherless daughter.
Parents and Children
Charlotte Mason · 1897 AD — the second volume of Mason's Home Education Series, on the parents' calling.
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