1842 PARENT'S MAGAZINE. Vegetarianism, Household Management, Emancipated Slave Schools, &c.

A fascinating entire year of a periodical designed specifically for parents, with practical management help for large and small families alike, spiritual counsel, counsel on the management of emotions, anti-examples of criminals who had been raised by lax or inconsistent parents, the role of music and diet in the young, vegetarianism, etc., 

The contents include: On the Management of Infants; Conversion Late but Delayed; How to Train up a Child to Speak the Truth; How to Choose a Good Husband; Evil Effects of Laxness in the Government of Children; The Career of Crime; Duty of Children to Parents; The Importance of Well Ventilated Apartments; Necessity of Fortifying the Young Against the Wiles of Infidelity; Woman but a Helper; On the Dangers of Young Men; Gossiping; Rules for Family Government; A Mother's Offering for the Heathen; Biography of Criminals; Indulge the Curiosity of the Young; Musical Instruction; An Interesting School [on a school of "black" children who were born slaves in the West Indies, but who had been emancipated under the efforts of William Wilberforce, etc.]; Vegetable Diet [on vegetarian diet among the Irish and its benefits]; On the Formation of Habits; On the Connection between the Holiness in the Parent and the Obedience of the Child, etc. 

The Parent's Magazine, and Young People's Friend. By an Association of Parents. September 1841 to August 1842. Concord, New Hampshire. Rev. Thomas Thompson. 1842. 286pp.

Good in original quarter calf, rehinged. Some chipping as shown. Text generally very good, clean, and solid aside from some generally minor foxing.