Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young - Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be - Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right - Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods - in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile - Mind

Jacob Abbott

Capitolo 50

introduced, it is, as you/he/she has already been remarkeds that criminal punishments of this
nature, and it imposed in this spirit, it is not vengeful, but simply repairer
and reformatory. He doesn't intend that they satisfies the sense of the justice for,
that that is passed, but only to assure greater safety and the happiness in duration to
comes.

Element of _The of Invariableness_.

Punishments can be very light and you/they can tame in their character, provided that them
it is sure to follow the offense. It is in their _certainty_, and not in
their _severity_ that the efficiency of them the lies. Very little children are
ever burnt severely putting their fingers in the flame of a candle.
They is taught indeed not to put them in from a lot of disdains burnings,
on account of the _absolute invariableness_ of the result produced by the
contact.

Mothers don't often understand this. They tries to recover some usual
blames from scoldings and threats and declarations of that that they wants
certainly calculations" "following, and perhaps from occasional actions of the true gravity
in cases of the particular aggravation, instead of a quiet you tame, and
the negligible infliction comparatively in instance_ of _every of the guilt that
it would be more real together.

A child, has acquired for example the habit to leave the door opens. Now
scolding every now and then it, when it especially has cold, and now and then
closing above it in a closet for half a hour, it will never recover him/it of the
guilt. But if there was a figure of automaton that is next to the side of the
door, to tell him time_ of _every that he has passed without closing him/it,
_Door_! what called you/he/she should be a signals to him to return and to close the door,
and then he/she sits down on a chair near from and it counts ten;  and if this disdains
criminal punishment was _invariably_ it strengthened, he would be recovered indeed of
the guilt in a very short duration.

His/her mother cannot be now precisely, this automaton, for her you/he/she always is not able
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