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 68

doesn't do theirs doing what he asks for some the less actions of _obedience_,
through vainly trying to decrease the work to respect a command from
mixing the influence of reasonings and persuasions with him, he is able in
the other ways do all in its power--and that will be a great quantity--to do the
actions of the easy obedience, or, at least, to decrease the difficulty of them
and the gravity of the test that they brings the thick child.

A way as which this can be served not being jumping unpleasant
obligations on a child suddenly, but giving a small time to his/her mind
to form him to the idea of that that is to come. When Johnny and Mary are
happily playing together with their blocks on the floor, and it is,
perhaps, completing only a tower that they is building, if theirs
mother suddenly enters the room, you/he/she suddenly announces to theirs that is
time for them to go in bed, throws down the tower and brushes the blocks
in the basket, and then the hurries his/her children street to strip, her
it gives a sudden and painful hit to their whole nervous system, and greatly
the disappointment and the pain that they experiments in the being increase
forced to abandon their play. The delay of a minute solo would be
enough to bring their minds it easily rounds off and softly in subjugation to
the necessity of the case. If she comes to them with a smile, it looks on
their job a moment with an expression of interest and pleasure on her
you approve, and then it says,

"It is bed-time, children, but I would like to see Your tower end her/it."

One minute of delay as this, to soften the suddenness of the transition,
it will make the action of subjugation to the necessity to abdicate play and
going in bed, in obedience to the command of the easy mother comparatively,
instead of being, as it very probable you/he/she would have been otherwise, extremely
annoying and painful.

_Give a Small Time_.

In the same way, in to bring to a closing a party in the evening of children to
games, if the lady of the house comes some front to the duration and says to
theirs that later "a more play", or "two more plays", as you/he/she can be the case,"
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