How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . esirable to leave a child as much at liberty ascircumstances will conveniently admit, and to give asfew commands and prohibitions as possible. Let thechilds limbs and affections have full play and freescope, and let our endeavor be to assist the naturalgrowth and enter fully into his mind and spirit. Butif a command must be given, give it at once, as thatfrom which there can be no appeal; the reasons for itare better given afterward, when there ca
How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality . esirable to leave a child as much at liberty ascircumstances will conveniently admit, and to give asfew commands and prohibitions as possible. Let thechilds limbs and affections have full play and freescope, and let our endeavor be to assist the naturalgrowth and enter fully into his mind and spirit. Butif a command must be given, give it at once, as thatfrom which there can be no appeal; the reasons for itare better given afterward, when there can be no inter-ested motives to prevent the child from seeing them intheir proper light. Obedience must always be penalty of disobedience must be as certain as thepain which follows the putting the hand in the fire;for a child must be taught what he will find throughlife—that there is a law controlling his free will for hisown good. As much as possible let a childs conductbe the result of his own free will by a judicious ar-rangement of circumstances about him, rather than ofpositive command; for what a child can be led to do of. SAMUEL PLATE XXVI. Temper. 177 himself is mucli more valuable in its after result thanthat which is regulated by anothers will. There ismuch in choosing just the right instant for making ademand; to stop in the midst of any interesting pursuitis always painful. Allow for infirmity of temper, andas much as possible let all feeling subside before com-mands are given. We may as well command a childnot to feel the toothache as not to feel anger and irrita-tion. Kever forget what a child must be—^that is,what belongs to childhood, and exercise authority aslittle as possible with regard to those things which achild must necessarily grow out of in a few years. TEMPEK. Bad temper is oftener the result of unhappy circum-stances than of an unhappy organization; it frequently,however, has a physical cause, and a peevish child ofte
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