A child learns from what he sees in his home: His parents are an example to him. Beautiful in verse
Who is rude to his wife and children, Who loves the language of lasciviousness, Let him remember that he’ll get more than enough from them all that he teaches them. Now it’s out of fashion It’s out of fashion and common And the female sex, disgracing themselves, They’ve begun to talk dirty in conversation. Husbands are examples to their wives, And their children learn from them: Where the abbot is no enemy of wine, Where the abbot is not an enemy of wine. What can I say? The world is full of fools! The wolf did not raise the sheep, It was the father who gave the crayfish his gait. When parents are clever And virtuously modest, Then the sons are good. Diogenes was once caught Some drunken man who was completely drunk, “The first time he met him. “Son,” said the wise man to him. “I see you’re just like your father: I’ll bet he’s a slave of the drunken.)
If our children see us and hear us, We are responsible for our deeds And for our words: it’s easy to push To push children into wrong ways Keep your house decent, So you won’t have to repent.
