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Show Build Up the Virtues in Children and the Faults Will Disappear By MRS. ELVIRA HYATT V 1 " It pay to have high ideals for our children and to respect their individuality. indi-viduality. 1 Much can be accomplished by expecting children to be good, and .by showing them that we trust them. Ve should never call a child "bad," never wound his self-respect This does not mean that his naughty actions should be "glossed over, but as one wise educator has expressed it, we should realize that every fault is simply the absence of some virtue, and we should try to build up that quality in which the child is deficient, rather than condemn him for that which he has not. Build up the virtues and the faults will disappear. If a child to selfish we should dwell on unselfishness ; if the child is untidy, on neatness; if slow, on quickness; and we should always remember to praise even the slightest sign of the virtue we are working to cultivate, A child will try to live up to the thing for which he is praised. "How quiet and helpful my little Teggy is today" will do more good than a dozen scoldings about noise and mischief. Stories can bo told to arouse and stimulate high ideals. Stories have a wonderful educational value and almost any lesson can be taught In story form. Tell stories about birds, trees, flowers, animals, groat and good men, simple stories of home and family life, stories from history and from the Bible. The eager little minds are ready for anything yon wish to give them, and if you are a natural story-teller great indeed is your opportunity. oppor-tunity. Ideals of right conduct, love of family and sympathy with every living thing can all be given through the right use of stories. Much has been said and written about parental influence, but volumes vol-umes more are needed on post-natal influences. One of the first things a bnby learns is to "smile back" at his mothor, and in all his carlirst years the child reflect the altitudes of thn around him. He imiUu-s the things widt h ho sees and bran, in order to understand them, and "as the twig is lent the tree's inclined." t |