Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers is a sketch that L.M. Montgomery published in the November 1901 issue of the Toronto magazine The Ladies’ Journal. It consists of a blend of poetry (“Mother’s Mending Basket”), vignettes (“The Children’s Garden,” “One Mother’s Opinions,” “Bright Sayings”), and child-rearing advice (“What to Teach Your Son,” “What to Teach Your Daughter”), and some of its components were republished separately (especially “What to Teach Your Son”). It appears in A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917 (2018).
Bibliography
Montgomery, L.M. “Half an Hour with Canadian Mothers.” The Ladies’ Journal (Toronto), November 1901, 20–22.
Excerpted as “One Mother’s Opinion” in The Standard (Chicago), 9 November 1907, 16 (from “The Interior”).
Excerpted as “One Mother’s Opinion” in The Pacific (Berkeley), 30 July 1908, 12–13.
Also in A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 192–202.