More Chrysostom on Child Rearing

Go to this pdf for a translation of Chrysostom's An Address on Vainglory and The Right Way for Parents to Bring Up Their Children.   He explains how to tell a bible story to children, compares the child's soul to a city, urges discipline and self sufficiency, and prohibits children from attending the theater among other excellent advice.

He concludes,

"Young men are troubled by desire, women by love of finery and excitement. Let us therefore repress all these tendencies. Thus we shall be able to please God by rearing such athletes for Him, that we and our children may light on the blessings that are promised to them that love Him (cf. I Corinthians 2:9), by the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed glory, power, and honor, now and for evermore. Amen."