thrown away

a new way to see/live life

To rear a boy under what parents call the 'sheltered life system' is, if the boy must go into the world and fend for himself, not wise unless he be one in a thousand he has certainly to pass through many unnecessary troubles, and may, possibly come to extreme grief simply from ignorance of the proper proportions of things.

Let a puppy eat the soap in the bathroom or chew a newly polished shoe. He chews and chuckles until, by and by, he finds out that blacking and Old Brown Windsor make him very sick; so he argues that soap and shoes are no wholesome. Any old dog about the house will soon show him the unwisdom biting big dogs’ ears. Being young, he remembers and goes abroad, at six month, a well-mannered little beast with a chastened appetite. If he had been kept away from boots, and soap, and big dogs till he came to the trinity full-grown and with developed teeth, consider how fearfully sick and thrashed he would be! Apply that notion to be ‘sheltered life’, and see how it works. It does not sound pretty, but it is the better of two evils.

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[MADAM]

I agree, but Im not sure if this format would be considered poetry"^^) Its more of a paragraph explaining the concept...