myself, and I never approve of entrusting such delicate matters to servants and nursemaids.

I answered her approvingly:

You do well. But for heaven's sake, tell me: what do you do if, some evening, you have to leave the house to answer an invitation before the little ones' bedtime? She smiled and said: My guide in raising my children is truthfulness and frankness to the furthest possible limit. If I must leave the house in such circumstances, I let them know of it. In the past this used to drive them to tears and protest, but a few tears shed are far easier for me to bear than the loss of their trust in me, if I were to take up lying and mis-leading them, deceiving them with fabricated tales, as some parents — sadly — do. Such parents may think it a kindness to the little one to assure him that they are close by, in the next room, and then to steal away outside once the child has fallen asleep. It sometimes happens that he wakes during their absence and bursts into tears, running in terror about the room, finding it hard to bear that his father and mother have made sport of him with their lies and tricks. And the child may grow up and come of age still resentful of their conduct, marked by the memories of the past.

All this my friend recounted, while my admiration kept grow-ing for her sincerity, her fine understanding of the child's sen-sitive psychology, and her skill in keeping the reins of his affairs in her hands.

I wanted to put one last question to her: Do you approve of excessive protection of the child? She answered me with calm and poise: There is, my dear, a plain difference among children in their innate sensitivity to cold and heat, sound and light, kinds of food,

and emotional situations. And yet the ordinary child, if he is well trained and accustomed to regular hours for sleep and meals, and if the general order of his life does not hang on the whims of grown-ups, has no further need of any sort of protection where he sleeps. For it is easy for the little one to grow used to sinking into sleep despite sounds and lights and other such factors. It is well known that the excessive precautions some parents take to prepare the best possible condi-tions for the child — whether by way of excessive covering, or

total quiet, or pitch darkness — produce a heightened sensitivity and an overwrought delicacy in his earliest days. Nor must you be lax in accustoming the child to sleep alone after his second year: beyond that stage of life there is nothing to justify a child's sleep-ing in his parents' room. If his elders succeed in instilling these habits in him from his tenderest years, their work will count, beyond doubt, as a notable victory in taming the child's whims and setting him on a good road toward independence and self-reliance.

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