Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes
A capable mother keeps her young people employed and thus out of mischief. She demands from them co-operative helpfulness. She maintains Shelter. She distributes praise and blame. She keeps order. She does not pretend to practice "democracy", the children do not elect their teachers nor determine the methods of family government. Any mother who knows her business is in her home an absolute domestic dictator. It is she who decides what the children shall eat and wear, when they shall get up or go to bed, and go to school, and come home, &c. Her reign extends however, only over the young and her sole object is to fit them to take proper care of themselves later and to make their own way in life
Prestonia Mann Martin, Prohibiting poverty; suggestions for a method of obtaining economic security, 1933 HD31 .M3 1933c
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
This seems to be the first instance of the famous dictum.