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 58

quickly understands as different it will be the effect of this measure
from that of the other, while he/she is anchoring the criminal punishment it is precisely in both the cases
the same--or rather, the loss, for the boys, of five minutes of their play.

_The Small Runaway_.

In the same way, where a child three or four years old it was in the habit,
when it allowed to go out to the enclosure to play alone, of management street in
the road, a very proper punishment would be to ask for him/it for the,
rest of the day, to be in the house and to hold in sight of his/her mother,
on the earth that was not sure to have alone trust in him in the enclosure.
This a lot of would be best that sending in bed it a hour first, or
submitting him/it to some other inconvenience or deprivation that it has anybody obvious
the connection with the guilt. For him it is of the greatest importance to avoid,
in every way, the stimulant of the feelings of irritation and resentment
in the mind of his/her/their child, till now as it is possible to do this without
damaging the efficiency of the punishment. It is not possible to always do
this. The efficiency of the punishment is, clearly, the essential thing;
but parents and teachers that turn him their attention to the point will find
what very less difficulty is that one would suppose to assure this
ends completely without producing too much the frequent accompaniments of
punishment--anger, the sick-temperament and the sick-wish.

[The illustration: "it Is not Sure"]

In the case, for example of his/her/their child to go out to the enclosure didn't allow,
but in demand to remain in the house in sight of his/her mother, his/her mother
you/he/she should not try to manufacture the heavy_ of _more the punishment speaking again and
again of his/her guilt, and showing his/her sorrow trying to do the
I confine as annoying to his/her child as possible;  but, on the other hand,
you/he/she should do all in his/her power to assuage him/it. "I am very sorry", she was able
says, to have to hold her/it in the house. It would be many pleasanters for you
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