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Show Uor rniii2 Children. Parents have proudly told me of sick-e'linjj sick-e'linjj battles with their children, will pitted ngniust Trill, till at last the stronger strong-er physique gained the mastery, and the child's "will was broken," Such victories vic-tories are worse than defeats. I have seen ft father and his liltlo boy stand pitted against each other, with a look ia each face that I could call nothing but hatred; uud when I thought of the power of tho one aiid tho helplessness of the other I could not but admire the boy's pluck. There should bo no such occasions. The j unni stands convicted of utter stupidity in tindiiijj himself iu any such situation. There are times when it is wiser for the parent to ignore soma mood on the child's part. Tho part of the parent should bo in ever seeking tho wise opportunity to impress the child with tho virtue that is tho reverse of Borne fault it falls into. Children pass through various phases, and some dragon of a fault that one has been worrying over and planning air'dnst suddenly vanishes van-ishes into thin air and is no more. Sometimes Some-times one fixes a fault by noticing it too much. It become.', an expres-ion of nervousness. The child repeals a fault through mi inability to puss over it. It becomes like a bard word in the Kindling book that bo lias met before. Ho recognizes recog-nizes the word without knowing its name, r.nd at the f-aine moment remembers remem-bers his struggles with it, and the painful pain-ful impression tills him with nervousness, nervous-ness, his mind becomes confused and he cannot control bis thought. It is wise with a fault, us with the hard word, to let it go to escape it. Omit the hard word; avoid unytbing to exeit.i the ha? bijatial fault. Presently the child forgets for-gets the fault. It may be said that; injudicious in-judicious parents often croato their children's chil-dren's fault. Harper's Bazar. |