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Parents and friends find it easier to attend to the wants and requirements of their blind children than to teach them to be self-helpful in the common acts of everyday life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

A self-helpful steady little child is Miss Kitty Kimmeens: a dimpled child too, and a loving.

From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Dickens, Charles

Occasionally a group of college-bred girls came up without escort—alert, self-helpful and serene.

From The Spirit of Sweetwater by Garland, Hamlin

Among these kindly offices to be rendered, these practical agencies for making Abel a happy, self-helpful, and consequently a better little brother, we may surely count the free kindergarten.

From Children's Rights A book of nursery logic by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Nothing can lighten the burdens of attendants so much as to make the helpless self-helpful.

From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by Granger, William D.