Family & Relationships6 mins ago
Old religious saying
give me a child by the age of seven and they will be mine for life
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ."Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the man" is an old Jesuit saying, the Jesuits being an order of the Roman Catholic priesthood often involved in teaching. (Sometimes it is presented as "the child at seven", which puts rather a different slant on the matter.) The basic idea remains the same...if you totally control a young person from an early age, you can almost certainly dictate how he/she will turn out as an adult.