Show through 4 a comans womans eyes es av H jean fuh newton I 1 A successful MOTHER ON punishment THE RD boy Is a fine child bright anh and high spirited he clesa obeys like it little sold soldier ler his mother nev never r talks about him but this day the other t h women asked her how it was she enforced such obedience 1 I suppose suggested ono one of her friends its because hes afraid she will tell his father if 1 lie he obey how Is he punished asked anther another 0 punish that gorgeous child I 1 interposed poll ed another hes so irresistible I 1 have the heart oh yes I 1 do punish him answered the successful mother thus cutting short any further speculation on the phenomenon of an unusually bright energetic and peppy youngsters remarkable obedience since you ask me ill tell you yau how I 1 do it its a little unusual way of punishing if he does doas something naughty for which there Is no excuse and which therefore requires punishment I 1 say this to him film 11 now bobby you know you should not have bave done that its not artly nl the harm or inconvenience which Is caused for fei some one else but if jouget you get into tho tha babit of doing such thinks things you will trow grow up to be a disagreeable person and people wont like you which means that yon wont be happy and we want jou iou always to be happy now to help you to remember not to dothan nor anything like it again we shall have to find some punishment 1 and then we find a deprivation that le ie appropriate so as to help him to remember at times I 1 have consulted him as to appropriate punishment there are two things certain about his punishment its severity and its certainty it Is never a joke but Is always just severe enough to hurt a bit and to help him to remember and then it Is absolutely certain that Is he knows that surely us night follows day if he be transgresses he Is going to pay the price take ills his medicine but and this to la Im important portent his fits punishment Is never meted out in anger a spirit of fight between parent and child if he offends I 1 am not angry only soy sorry I 1 do noe not hold a grudge nor pay him back in spite his punishment to la a matter of cause caus and effect which grieves me no les less than it does turn film and in lnell inflicting acting which I 1 am merely the agent who inflicts a necessary discipline fn an a situation of his creating not mine and then it Is always for the spirit of wrongdoing wrong doing or disobedience that he has been punished never in ratio to or with any regard to the damage involved that Is if after having been told not to handle a certain food or not to touch certain china on the dinner table lie he persisted undoing in doing eo 0 he be would be punished for disobeying whether or not this resulted in damage to his clothes or to the china involved on the other hand if by accident he should split spill soup all over his new and best suit or quite by accident break the finest piece of urica uric A a brac in the house our only reaction to his L knowledge now ledge would be one til sym sympathy Oathy a an in any other nee accident ident that Is my idea of and punishment and it has wor worked ked oui out with bobb 0 0 by the del syndicate inc 0 |