“It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.”
Roosevelt said this as a father of six, in an era when Victorian fathers were expected to be distant authority figures who governed by lecture. He was the opposite — he wrestled with his children on the White House lawn, wrote them letters daily when he was away, and read to them every night he was home.
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