Foolishness and affection must not be treated as interchangeable terms; and besides training your sons and daughters in the softer and milder virtues you must seek to give them those stern and hardy qualities which in after life they will surely need.
Roosevelt stresses the importance of instilling both soft and strong virtues in children.
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