Common problems of older single women:
Being lazy and ill-tempered, being idle and loving to spend money.
The problem is that many women's expenditures and incomes are inverted, and young women are now the group with the heaviest debt.
If you worry about bad things before they happen, it means that bad things have happened twice. If you worry about bad things after they have already happened, it means that bad things have happened three or four times.
“What conquers people’s hearts is never cleverness, but kindness; what moves people’s hearts is never words, but actions; what remains consistent is never pretense, but sincerity.”
When we find it difficult to educate our children and see nothing but their problems, perhaps what we should examine most is whether we ourselves have long become that defective bowl?