ing Him Forth to Face the World: Teach Independence A. mother's love for her children is, naturally a possessive love, writes the Hon. Mrs. St. Aubyn in lorning Post."
From the first she has guided, shielded, and made sacrifices order to do her best for hor child, and it is very difficult for her to realize when the moment has come to step into the background and let, her child not only stand alone, but out into the world alone, The wise mother remembers that the age of childhood lasts only a short time, and so sets herself during this period to develop the growth of her child's mind as she would that of his body.
New Freedom In previous generations children were brought up strictly. The tendency to-day is to allow the child a complete freedom of thought. But these theories of freedom often stimulate snd accelerate develop.
ut, thereby depriving the child of clit of peaceful and gradual The education of chi dren i rather to spoon-feeding, rightly protecting them from the sordid sit" of life daring childhood. The parent does not always realize the moment when the child should begin to. face the facts he must face when he goes out into the world!
'A child so often, as he grows up, unconsciously hides his development from his mother. He realizes her desire for complete understanding, and, being reserved, as are all children, dreads to hurt her.
The modern mother fears this point of view, and so tries to treat her child as an equal, and thereby. loses some of the glamour which the mothers who live less with their children have.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.