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The Most Effective Way To Gain The Confidence And Love Of Your Children
October 2nd, 2009, No Comments
In my previous post I wrote about Sympathy as the Origin of Childish Fears. Today I want to share with you more about sympathy. I think there can be no doubt that the most effectual way of securing the confidence and love of children, and of acquiring an ascendency over them, is by sympathizing [...]
Sympathy as the Origin of Childish Fears
October 1st, 2009, 1 Comment
The power of sympathy in the mind of a child – that is, its tendency to imbibe the opinions or sentiments manifested by others in their presence – may be made very effectual, not only in inculcating principles of right and wrong, but in relation to every other idea or emotion.
Children are afraid of [...]
How To Use Sympathy To Form The Mind And Heart Of Your Children
September 30th, 2009, No Comments
There is a great mystery in the nature of it, and in the manner of its action. This we see very clearly in the simplest and most striking material form of it – the act of gaping. Why and how does the witnessing of the act of gaping in one person, or even the [...]
Forming Habits of Obedience in Children
September 29th, 2009, No Comments
1. A very excellent effect is produced in forming habits of obedience in children, by simply noticing their good conduct when they do right, and letting them see that you notice it. When children are at play upon the carpet, and their mother from time to time calls one of them – Mary, we [...]
Training Your Children To The Habit Of Obedience
September 9th, 2009, No Comments
I’ll continue with the example I used in my previous post Parents Not Aware Of The Extent Of Their Responsibility
When the bouquets were finished Mary gave the children, severally, the two which had been made for them; and the two which they had made for themselves she took into the house and placed them [...]
Parents Not Aware Of The Extent Of Their Responsibility
September 1st, 2009, 1 Comment
Many parents, perhaps indeed nearly all, seem, as we have already shown, to act as if they considered the duty of obedience on the part of their children as a matter of course. They do not expect their children to read or to write without being taught; they do not expect a dog to [...]
How A Parent Can Establish Authority
August 31st, 2009, No Comments
While the parent must thus take care to establish the principle of authority as the ground of obedience on the part of his children, and must not make their doing what he requires any the less acts of obedience, through vainly attempting to diminish the hardship of obeying a command by mingling the influence [...]
Children’s Obedience Must Not Be Bought
August 26th, 2009, No Comments
If the bestowing of commendation and rewards is made a matter of mere blind routine, as the assigning of gentle penalties may be, the result will become a mere system of bribing, or rather paying children to be good; and goodness that is bought, if it deserves the name of virtue at all, is [...]
Corporal Punishment Of Children
August 22nd, 2009, No Comments
The question of resorting to Corporal Punishment in the Training of the Young has been much, very much, argued and discussed on both sides by writers on education; but it seems to me to be mainly a question of competency and skill.
If the parent or teacher has tact or skill enough, and practical knowledge [...]
How To Punish Your Child Efficiently – Part II
August 19th, 2009, 2 Comments
Part I here: How To Punish Your Child Efficiently
So true is it that the efficacy of any mode of punishment consists in the certainty of its infliction, that even playful punishments are in many cases sufficient to accomplish the cure of a fault.
George, for example, was in the habit of continually getting into disputes [...]
