Show Through a Womans Woman's Eyes I 6 by Jean lean J A SUCCESSFUL MOTHER ON PUNISHMENT HUB bov boy Is a n fine child Bright and anel high spirited he ne nes nevertheless obeys obe s like lIbe a little soldier Ills His mother never ne talks about him but this day the oth other other other er women asked ashell her how It was she enforced such obedience I I suppose suggested sug one of or her friends It Its it s because he hes s afraid she will tell h his father it if he doesn t obey How How Is la he punished asked an another another another other Punish that gorgeous child I Inter Interposed interposed interposed posed another he lies he s so Irresistible I t ha e the Oh Oil yes I do punish him ans Bred ered the success successful CuI mother thus cutting short an any ani further speculation on the phenomenon of or an unusually lIy bright ener energetic and peppy peppi youngsters ster oung-ster re- re re- re remarkable re remarkable obedience Since you ou ask me I II tell you how I do o it t Its it s a little unusual way of punishing It It If he does something for tor which there Is no e excuse cuse and which therefore requires punishment I say sa this tills to him Now Bobby you ou know you ou should not ha e done tint that It Its s not caly the harm or Inconvenience Incon neon which Is c for tor some one else elce but if Ir you ou get Into the habit of oC dOl doing such things you will Ill grow up to be a disagreeable per person person person son and people won on wont t like you sou ou which means that you wont on t be happy And we want you ou always to be happy 4 Now ow to help you ou to remember not notto notto notto to do that nor anything ail an thing thIng- like Ie it again we shall ha have tia e to find Ind some punish punishment meat ment And then we find dud a n deprivation that is appropriate so as to help him to remember remembert t t times I 11 have hi e con salted him as to appropriate punish punishment meat ment There are two VO things certain about hIs punIshment Its punishment Its severity se erIty and Its certainty It is ne never neier er a Joke but Is Isah ah always nys just se severe seere ere enough to hurt a abit abit abit bit and to help him to remember And then it is absolutely certain chat Is he knows s that surely as night ht follows day If Ir he transgresses he Is going to pay poy the take price price take his modi sine cine But and But and this is important his Important punIshment Is never nc ne er meted out In an anger anger anger ger a spirit of or fight between bet parent and child If It he offends I am not angry only sorry som I do not hol hold a grudge nor pay him beck bick In spite Ills His punishment Is a matter of or cause and effect which grieves cs es me rue no less than It does him and In Inflicting which Illch I am nm merely the agent who a necessary discipline In a situation of or his creating not mIne mine nd nd then It is alwa always s for Cor time the spIrit ot of wrong wrongdoing rong doing or disobedience that he has hos been punished ne never In ratio to or with Ith any regard to the damage ol ed Involved Irl That Is If It after having ha ha been told not to handle a certain food or not to touch certain china on the dinner table he persisted In doing so 50 he would be Le punished for disobeying Ing whether hether or not this resulted In dam dum damage damate age to his clothes or to the china In ed voh ed On the other hand if It bv by ac accident Ident he should spill pili soup all 1111 over o 0 er his new De and best suit or quite by BC ac accident break the finest piece of ot brie a brae In the house our only reaction to his knowledge lede would be one or of orS sympathy S as os In ID any an other accident That Is my Ide idea of oC discipline and punishment and It has hae worked out with Ith Bobby hobby Q C by the tb Dell Syndicate Inc |