"If, madam, you complain of your child's stubbornness and lack an effective remedy, here is what the well-known educator Mrs. Hoffman says on the subject; perhaps in it lies what you seek."

In an atmosphere of understanding and love, Amin and his wife Evelyn lived, braving life's difficulties thanks to their cooperation. They were the object of admiration and esteem of everyone who knew in them their capacity for solving their social and other problems. But people's opinion of them began to change on account of the short-coming they showed in disciplining their children. Wadia is not yet past five, Farid is three and a half, and Leeb is two.

It is regrettable that all the lessons Mrs. Evelyn had received in the field of child-rearing bore

no fruit once applied in practice to her own children. She often felt she went too far with her continual punishing of her children; the annoyance was mutual—they annoyed her with their noise and their unseemly behavior, and she annoyed them with her threats and warnings. As for the children, they grew up with selfishness clinging to them: you would see them quarreling over a "toy" they were amusing themselves with, each wanting to monopolize it the whole time, and their last resort was their mother, who ruled on their complaints—and as the common proverb has it, "the children's judge did away with himself." This lady was torn between two different ideas:

1 - to discipline her children in an ideal fashion;

2 - to give them freedom enough to develop their personalities, for fear an inferiority complex and a sense of failure should take hold of them.

Because of this contradiction Mrs. Evelyn was compelled to consult one of the experts in child-rearing, in the hope that she might shed upon her a gleam of light by which to proceed in solving her problem. The expert chosen for this purpose was Mrs. Hoffman, who visited the family to study at close range the character and behavior of each member separately, as a first step toward solving the problem entrusted to her. The hour just then was eight-thirty on Easter morning, when everyone was in the bedrooms and Easter eggs and baskets and toys, etc., lay scattered over the floor. As for Farid, the first thing Mrs. Hoffman learned