The mother who thinks she has her small son nicely started in the way he should go is often made troubled and am: us haviour when he begins day school.
He apparently copies every reprehensible trait going, even to telling little fibs.
She finds these mushroom growths very persistent, too; gentle of treatment seem of little avi fnevere ones even less. Really for the time being the child seems to have taken on entirely different This ute phase of the difficulty will, however, soon pass, and there is no need at all for the actual which is sometimes felt. It is ly a stage of growth and not a wicked tendency on the part of the child. It is important to realize that the child is himself up against a difficulty to which he fods very unequal.
"As will be discovered if he is sympathetically questioned, and he needs understanding and patient treatment before all.
If punishment sins really absolutely necessary in the case of some especially stubborn particular, shed be light, for severity weakens the bond of affection between parent and child, and can do no lasting good.
On the other hand, patient persistent correction is always finally successful, though its results may not be soon all at once, and some quite useful discipline for the parent may have to to be involve the process.
It is a good plan to explain to him that all his playmates are good really, but that. sometimes. they make mistakes, just. as he does, though perhaps in different' ways. neither he nor they must copy thd other's mistakes in conduct any more than in the sums he is learning to work, or trouble is sure to come of bably all to the good that he begins to learn it in good time.
Now is the time when a foundation for future building upon may be well and truly Taid.
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