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 7

the measures that can be considered violent that a mother can apply to in
a case as this.

_Bodily Punishment_.

1. There is before, the infliction of the physical pain. His/her child can be whipped,
or it laced to the bed-place, and kept in a forced and inconvenient
positions for a lot of time, or hisses in the loneliness and the obscurity, or it punished
from the infliction of the physical suffering in the other ways.

And there is without doubt that there is a tendency in such treatment to correct
or it recovers the guilt. But measures as these, if succeeded or not it is,
violent measures certainly. They shocks the whole nervous system, sometimes
with the excitement of the pain and terror, and always, probably, with that
of resentment and anger. In of the cases this excitement is extreme. The
excessively delicate organization of the brain through that this way
the nervousness reach the sensorium, and what, in children of a first age it is
in his/her more tender and sensitive state of development, you/he/she is submitted to a
more intense and violent nervousness.

_Evil Effects of the Violence in this Form_.

The bad effects of this cerebral and excessive action are able completely _perhaps_
you pass away in some times, and you don't leave anybody trace of damage behind;  but then,
there is certainly on the other hand reason to fear that such emotions,
especially if often repeated, curtain to prevent the to regulate and healthy
development of the organs, and that they can become the origin of
upsettings, or of actual disorganizations, resulting in very seriously
future years. It is impossible, perhaps, to know with certainty if
sick and permanent effects follow in such cases or not. In every case, such
remedy is a violent.

Scary _The System_.

2. There is a second degree of the violence in the treatment of such case,
what it consists in exciting pain or terror or other painful or unpleasant
the emotions, through the imagination, introducing to the desire of his/her/their child
images of ghosts, malignant goblins and the other dreadful monsters which the anger, it
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