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 54

_substitute_ his/her child's action for that of his/her/their parent in the job of
first training, but we can deduce very great thick advantage assuring
his/her cooperation.

_Playful Punishments_.

So true it is it that the effectiveness of some way of punishment consists in the
_certainty of his/her infliction_ that happy punishments are also in many
cases enough to bring defeasible the care of a guilt. George, for example,
it was in the habit to continually get in disputes and mild disputes
with his/her nun Amelia, one year or two more youth that him. "I know that it is
very foolish", he told his/her mother, when she was talking to him on the
submits an evening after he had gone in bed, and she was saying
him a history, and his/her mind it was in a calm and calm state. "It is a lot
foolish, but somehow me I cannot help him/it. I forget."

"Then you have to have some punishment to make to remember her/it", it said his/her mother.

"But sometimes _she_ is that to blame", it said George, "and then she owes
has the punishment."

"No", his/her mother answered. "When a lady and a gentleman are involved in
a dispute in kind society, is the gentleman that has to be always
considered to be to blame."

"But Amelia and I are not kind society", it said George.

"You should be", says his/her mother. "In every case, when You, a more old man
brother, gets in disputes with Your sister, you/he/she is because you don't have
feels enough to handle as to avoid them. If You pits an a little older and
more wise man You enough it would have sense."

"Well, mother, what will be the punishment?" Said George.

"Her really like to have a punishment, as to recover him of the
guilt?" asked to his/her mother.

It said George that him _would_ as one.

"Then", says his/her mother, "I propose that every time that you find in a dispute
with Amelia, you result Your jacket wrong side and the door so a small
while as a symbol of the folly."

George laughed at heart to this idea, and he should like motto such
punishment as that a lot. He would be only amusing it said. His/her mother
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