Capitolo 79
and to the different stages of progress served as his/her pupils in to learn to
respects, but you/he/she can only enumerate certain points I deign some attention of
parents that can feel covetous to undertake such job to train.
Practical _Three Directions_.
1. You abandon completely the idea to wait him that children were _spontaneously_
docile and obedient, and the practice of scolding or to punish them
vengefully when they is not this way. Instead of doing so, understands that
the docility and the obedience on their behalf have to be the result of wise man, accurate,
and persevering, although kind training from his/her/their parent.
2. If his/her children have already formed habits of disobedience and
for insubordination, is not waited that the desirable changes can be effected from
sudden, spasmodic, and violent efforts, accompanied from declarations and
threats and declarations that You "it will turn on a new leaf." The
you try to change perverted tendencies in children from such means it is as
trying to straighten a curve in the stem of an increasing tree from hits with a
hammer.
3. Instead of this, you start without telling what you will do,
or finding some guilt with the past, and, with a recognition separate of the
done what anything is bad in the _native tendencies_ of Your children
you probably lie they are inherited by their parents, and, perhaps, especially
from You, and that anything is wrong in their _habits of action_ it is
the result of bad training, certainly proceeds cautiously and softly, but
perseveringly and firmly, in the gradually to bring above the curved stem to the
correct position. In to do this, it is not any amount of the ingenuity and the ability,
however great, that cannot usefully have a job; neither it is there, on the
other hand, except in very rare and unusual cases, some parent that has
an assignment so small as not to be enough to bring defeasible the end, if
conscientiously assumed and faithfully.
I CAPITULATE VIII.
METHODS EXEMPLIFIED.
To give a clearer idea of that that I mean to form the habits of