| Show A SURE WAY TO MAKE THE CHILDREN DISOBEY AMMA IMA make cake this s h f may we a MA VI afternoon T No said mamma looking up her novel and scarcely taking in the request Certainly not Oh A wall wail goes up Why we mamma It is wet and we cant go out and nurse is busy and cook says we WoJ may if let us You may do nothing of the kind in inter ter rupe mamma Run away and play and lind dont disturb me meShe meShe meShe She had just lust reached a most moat exciting bit bitin bitIn bitin in the book she was Wit reading and It really was quits quite worrying to be interrupted by bythe bythe bythe the children But Dut the children of course so IW away They knew kne their mother too well They merely pressed closer They clam clambered clambered clambered up on each side of ot her and nd repeated their request reque t tRun Run away do she said absently But may we mummie If we run away may we make a cake eakeT they reiterated over and over again It was becoming unbearable Yes then you may ma Now run away and be quiet And the children delighted to have gained their way ran off to make the i cake and be happy Now why wh In the name of common sense en e edid did not their mother say BaY Yes Ye at the beginning Or why if she had listened U to their request lit at the beginning and de decided that it was one she did not wish to grant should she not have said No and I struck to it itro To ro say first t No o and then Yes Ye Is 18 Isto Isto to hopelessly confuse childrens minds so M far as their notions of obedience go and ana an anto to lay up for oneself one elt the troubles that come at some time or other to all who rear disobedient children It brings down trouble on the children too for many of the accidents and Ills Ill of childhood and not a few of its fatal fatali fatalities ties tie are the consequence of disobedience It is 18 the duty of parents to inculcate the habit of obedience in their children see Me seeing seeing ing hg that it Is certainly not one that comes cornea corneaby by nature But you ou will never nevel inculcate it by vacillation and Once children understand that no means no and that you ou never say flay no end then as a result of long Jong continue 1 teasing and ing turn it t Into yes es you will wilt not of on ottea UM be lie troubled with disobedient dis disobedient obedient children V f VIt It Ilia Is Ia parents who never know their own WIt J i minds who are roost most worried by br their children That nutt there then to is a certain amount of or trouble Involved in this thia matter of al alays always ways ays knowing ones ODe own mind go goss with without without without out saying To begin with you must mut train yourself Y not to say no at random You Yon must recognize cognize TO that there Is la no DO such thing thine as random ran om connected with the rearing of obedient ob children that Is 18 to say T chit children tren ren who will win give you the minimum amount of trouble You must take pairs pains to think before you speak And this to some seine people is ill a real but it is I worth taking a little trou bla bia bl over for troublesome troll and disobedient hUdren hildren are generally en rally the portion Forget of th tb v woman oman who speaks first and then th recognizing i that she has hall spoken spoileD without due I thought repents penta her of what she b has JIM said saidi i nd and 1 rescinds her permission or her bel prom promS lee is S t l Children are quick extraordinarily quick nick to recognise inconsistency They i ire are not early eally hoodwinked and they will WillI I rot not Qt respect re orders given by bJ one oae whom 1 I they know they can carl cajole or worry into j t a l change of mind ald one ODe may mar wm ask Uk UkI why should they I |
