[填空题]Ideas about "spoiling" children have always involved consideration of just what is a spoiled child, how does spoiling occur, and what are the consequences of spoiling; they have always included (36) of a child’s nature, the ideal child and the ideal adult.
The many mothers of 1820 who belonged to the early "maternal (母亲的) associations" struggled to (37) the ideas about child raising that had been (38) in the 18th century. They had always been told that the spoiled child stood in danger of having trouble later in life (when exposed to all the (39) of the world) and, more importantly, stood in danger of (40) ruin.
The approach these mothers knew was to "break the will" of the child. This approach, coming (41) from the theology (神学) of Calvin, the French protestant reformer, was (42) from the stem outlook of the Puritans. As one mother wrote, "No child has even been known, since the earliest period