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 69

the party has to end, his closing would be made easy;  while
waiting up to the time had come, and interrupting then suddenly the
gayety, perhaps in the middle one of a game from the sudden announcement to the
children that the clock has struck, and they has to stop their plays and
you start to find ready to go home, she brings them a sudden hit of
painful surprise, disappointment and, perhaps, irritation.

Then, if children will be orders to call away from their play some purpose
anything, is best to always give them a small notice, if it is only a
the notice of moment, in advance. "John, in one minute or two I will wish Him to
goes and you find some wood. You can be finding Your things hello to have gone away."
"Mary, is almost time for Your lesson. You had put better in bed Dolly
and it placed her/it in the crib." "Boys, in ten minutes it will be time for you
to go to school. Then it doesn't start new whistles, but only it ends that that You
you/he/she has started."

On the same principle, if boys are to play in the open air--to ball, or
skating, or kites volatori--and you/he/she will be recalled by a bell, the obedience to
the call will be made very easier to them from a preliminary signals as a
warning, five minutes determined in front of the duration.

It won't clearly be always, convenient to give these it signals and these
makeready times. Neither he/she wants him/it both necessary to always give them. To
you determine as and in that cases it is best to apply here the principle
explained it will ask for the touch and the good judgment from the
parent. It would be the folly to placed down a rigid rule of some kind to be
considered as obligatory always. Everybody that is desirable is that his/her mother
you/he/she should understand the principle, and that she should apply far it as as her
suitably and easily you/he/she can do this way. You will find in practice that when her
once it appreciates his value, and it observes his/her kind and beneficent
working, she will find him/it convenient and easy to apply him distant more
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