Some mothers press their children hard in their studies, and this leads the children to hate learning and to seek amusement and play in the hours set apart for study and lessons. This may affect their future most harmfully. If mothers took to the policy of encour-agement and persuasion instead of punishment and threats, and allowed the little ones time enough for play and recreation before they begin their lessons, trying to help them by explaining the difficult subjects without irritation or complaint, the little ones would bring home satisfying results — results that beget in them the love of study and work, and kindle in their souls the flame of ambition to press forward along the paths of progress.

Perhaps you have gone one day, Madam, with your child to the doctor's office, and instead of preparing the ground beforehand and explaining to him the reasons for the visit and its necessity, you tell him, for example, that you are taking him on an outing. But the little one soon comes upon the truth of the matter; he takes fright and grows confused, and it rankles in his soul that his mother did not tell him the truth. And this is what leads him to doubt her words on other occasions, even when they are truthful and frank to the farthest degree.

The child may err in word or deed, and you rebuke him or bring down a severe punishment upon him, without making his error clear to him, or the right way to avoid it on other occasions. With repetition the little one loses his power to distinguish between wrong and right, between good

and bad, and by degrees he learns that in lying there is escape from punishment. This robs him of his courage and his power to speak the truth, and he grows up a coward and a liar — whereas had you been forbearing with him the first time, in view of his ignorance, and guided him with your tact and your wisdom onto the right road, you would have spared him the committing of such follies, and the resort to the disgraceful weapon of lying.

And know, Madam, that threats and blows, if repeated, lose their

effect and lead to the opposite of the result intended. Likewise, excess in rewarding the child and in pampering him may drive him always to expect a bribe for every act; and in this lies the dissolution of his personality and the corruption of his character.

Will you not then, O sensible mother, observe all these consid-erations, so that your children may grow up soundly reared and be the pride of the nation and the boast of the family?

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