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In ''Early American Women'',  the essay by Susanna Wesely made me feel thankful I was brought up the way I was.  I disagree with her methods of controling children.  I don't believe in programing children to be the way a parent wishes.  I do agree with some of her her principles however.  I think children should be praised everytime they behave correctly or are obediant.  I believe children should be taught to be respectful to other's property.  I don't think children need to be preforming the same routine every day regardless if it is in eating, sleeping ect. In Wesely's essay, she herself noted that when the children had to be at seperate houses when their home was destroyed by fire, that when they were reunited under one roof again, they aquired some bad behaviors.  Perhaps if Wesely weren't so strict with her routines and ridgid discipline, her children may have come back with fewer negative influences.--Cheryl