With reference to the question of the training of children: given the
emphasis placed by Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on the necessity for the
parents to train their children while still in their tender age, it would seem
preferable that they should receive their first training at home at the hand of
their mother, rather than be sent to a nursery. Should circumstances, however,
compel a Bahá’í mother to adopt the latter course there can be no objection.