Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

what are not correct physical habits, and be enabled
thereby to instruct their children. The great mass
are as ignorant and indifferent in regard to the
physical and moral education of their children as
the animal creation. And yet they dare assume the
responsibilities of parents.
Every mother should acquaint herself with the
laws that govern physical life. She should teach her
children that the indulgence of animal appetites
produces a morbid action in the system and
weakens their moral sensibilities. Parents should
seek for light and truth, as for hid treasures. To
parents is committed the sacred charge of forming
the characters of their children in childhood. They
should be to their children both teacher and
physician. They should understand nature’s wants
and nature’s laws. A careful conformity to the laws
God has implanted in our being will ensure health,
and there will not be a breaking of the constitution
which will tempt the afflicted to call for a
physician to patch them up again.
Many seem to think they have a right to treat
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