and dreams that pass through her mind and all the experiences, joyful or painful, that come her way — is not achieved without effort and complete wakefulness on the mother's part toward her daughter from her earliest years; that is, from the time she begins, at two years of age, to lay before her mother's hearing her first experiences of this life. If the mother shows no interest in her daughter's talk — or rather, if she shows no genuine desire to listen to her — she has begun to push her daughter away from her, without realizing that the bond she will wish to strengthen later on must have its seeds planted in childhood; otherwise, a return to it after long years is not to be hoped for from a girl who at the very outset met with indifference and lack of concern for her affairs.

The wise mother, then, must make of these first small conversations opportunities to strengthen her ties with her daughter; she must give her room to talk frankly with her about all the matters that trouble her mind, and prepare for her the atmosphere suited to that. She must also exchange confidence with her, telling her of the similar experiences that befell her when she was her age; the daughter then feels at ease with this exchange of confidence and finds a special pleasure in com-paring her experiences with her mother's and in seeking out the points of likeness and difference between them.

A mutual confidence such as this is the greatest guarantee of continued understanding between mother and daughter. When the mother sits with her daughter and recounts to her, simply and without affectation or muddle, stories and incidents that hap-pened to her in her own youth, thoughts or feelings that once troubled her, the girl is reas-sured, finding that the thoughts passing through her mind and the passions filling her soul are

all natural signs of growth and of mental and bodily maturing, and therefore call for neither concealment nor denial.

Multiplying such sittings and such conversations develops in the girl a feeling of self-con-fidence and encourages her to approach her mother without timidity and lay her thoughts before her whenever she finds it necessary.

Moreover, frank discussion of personal problems with people one feels at ease with and trusts in their good will and sincerity greatly lightens the weight of one's violent experiences. If the girl does not find this faithful friend in the person of her mother, she is bound to look for one elsewhere, and she may find one in a person unworthy of trust.

Finally, once the mother joins her life to her daughter's, she finds herself facing the standing truth: that the first of her duties toward her daughter is to make her own conduct a supreme example for her daughter to follow; for however she may try to flee from this great responsibility, it will cling to her to the end. Therefore, if the mother wishes to develop in the person of her daughter desir-able habits of feeling, thinking, and conduct, she must first create in herself the essential qualities of those habits, so that she her-self becomes the ideal example, not for her daughter alone, but for all the girls of her society.

A true and firm relationship between the mother and her daughter is the sole guarantee of sound upbringing, for the factor of upbringing is the only factor that can be shaped and modified, since the factor of heredity is fixed and settled. Every individual is born with numerous potentialities for different person-alities, and thanks to upbringing alone do varied personalities emerge from a single heredity. Hence it falls to the mother to direct her daughter and help her bring out the personality that

leads her to the perfection of her self. Once the mother is convinced of this truth and feels the greatness of the responsibility laid on her shoulders, she will find that the role she herself plays in determining her daughter's life and in forming and shaping her personality is a fundamental role which she cannot overlook or undertake unworthily; it deserves to occupy the first place in her life.

And what good could a mother hope to achieve for the advance-ment of her society better than leading her daughter toward the formation of an ideal personality in which she may take pride and glory?

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