Lincoln's Childhood

Lincoln’s childhood was full of difficulty because he lost his sister and mother at a young age, and only his father lived into his adulthood. This made Lincoln accustomed to tragedy and loss, and how to handle it the best he can. He coped by reading and writing whenever he encountered loss because it was a passion of Lincoln’s, he loved it. Having a lack of guidance by his parents and self teaching himself methods to deal with tragedy made Lincoln a stronger and smarter president. This is because now he knew how to handle tragedy, so whenever the nation had a tragedy, he knew exactly how to handle it and what to say. Lincoln read many books from educational school books like Nicholas Pike’s New and Complete System of Arithmetic and Thomas