over another — whether between the firstborn and the others, or between the new baby and his brothers and sisters, or between brother and sister. This wrong conduct on the part of parents breeds rancor and hatred in the neglected child, and makes of the favored child an idle, dependent person unfit to face life and its problems.

The child is in direst need of his parents' love and tenderness at the moment when life takes on a gloomy aspect; the hour of psychological distress is the fitting hour at which you must show your child that your love for him remains as it was, without any change or alteration.

Second — The child needs assur-ance of his place in the home and outside it

The child's feeling that he belongs firmly to the family, and that he forms an inseparable part of it, is a matter of the greatest importance — and you can strengthen this feeling in him by giving him things you make his own property, which he has the right to keep in places reserved for him alone.

The child in adolescence profits greatly from sharing with his people in laying plans and pro-grams for the various matters that concern the course of the family's life, for this makes him feel that he is a useful member in the body of the family, and it also teaches him self-reliance and confidence in his ability to think and to make decisions. As for the child's relations with those outside his home, and especially his playmates and relatives, he is most anxious that his place in their circles should be secure. Parents can follow many ways of enabling their child to reach this goal of his: among them, welcoming his friends when they visit him at home, encouraging him to join scouting and athletic organizations, and providing the place and the equipment necessary for his play and amusement. It is also essential

not to interfere with the reasonable plans he draws up for himself, and to meet whatever rash behavior may come from him with patience

and wisdom.

Third — Parents must do all in their power to keep causes of fear and disturbance from seeping through to their children

The material and moral troubles to which parents may be exposed are among the matters from which the children must be kept safely apart, for they breed in them a feeling of insecurity that may cling to them all their lives.

Among the other causes that breed this feeling in them are the parents' making light of their dignity, or rebuking them in public, or mocking them,

or branding them with fear and cowardice.

Parents must take the side of wisdom and deliberation in the matter of their children's slow progress. They should not lose patience, for instance, at the inability of their child of six or seven to read, or at the unwill-ingness of their five-year-old to learn to swim; for these are things acquired gradually, and coercion and pressure concerning them may produce contrary results that have the worst effect on the child's mind.

What threatens the child