Too often you see the man, and I am sorry to say the woman, who says, “I have had to work hard; my sons and my daughters shall have an easy time.” Such a man or woman is preparing ruin for the children about whom this is said.
Roosevelt warns against the dangers of providing children with an easy life, which can lead to their downfall.
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