Mrs Whittelsey’s Magazine for Mothers and Daughters, Volume 3 (1852). Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey (1788-1858) edited several periodicals with names similar to this one. Her brother was “Peter Parley.”
This is a rather religious periodical full of advice to young mothers, some reprinted from other works, some original.
Some, however, sounds familiar…
THE STUPID, DULL CHILD.
There is always great danger of wounding the sensibilities of a timid, retiring child. It requires great forbearance and discrimination on the part of parents and teachers, in their endeavors to develop the latent faculties of the minds of such children, (whether this dullness is natural, or the effect of untoward circumstances,) without injuring the sensibilities of the heart.
This is especially true at the present day, when the world is laying such heavy demands upon the time and attention of parents. We not unfrequently hear a father confessing, with regret, to be sure, but without any apparent endeavors to obviate the evil, that his time and thoughts are so absorbed in the cares of his business, that his little children scarcely recognize him, as he seldom returns to his family, till they are in bed, and goes forth to his business before they are up in the morning.
Thanks to Josephine Paolucci for Post-processing this periodical!