The Adventist Home is both a handbook for busy parents and a pattern or ideal of what the home can be and should become In this book, Ellen White touches upon practically every phase of the home and offers specific instruction on many of the problems that give deep concern to parents today. Some years before her death she indicated her hope to prepare “a book for Christian parents” that would define “the mother’s duty and influence over her children”. This book represents an endeavour to fulfil that desire.