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SearchImportance of Structure
This year Jesus made great progress in adjusting his strong feelings and vigorous impulses
to the demands of family co-operation and home discipline. Mary was a loving mother but a
fairly strict disciplinarian. In many ways, however, Joseph exerted the greater control over Jesus
as it was his practice to sit down with the boy and fully explain the real and underlying reasons
for the necessity of disciplinary curtailment of personal desires in deference to the welfare and
tranquility of the entire family. When the situation had been explained to Jesus, he was always
intelligently and willingly co-operative with parental wishes and family regulations.