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Show I LOST IT c'TAOM, where is your cap?" i- "I lost it." "You lost it? Where?" "I don't know." "You don't know. Do you suppose sup-pose that all I have to do is buy you one cap after another? Now you go look for that cap until you find it." "I don't know where to look." "Neither do I. You lost it. You go find it." After a brief interval Tom comes back. "Well, did you find it?" "No. I looked everywhere but it Isn't there." "I suppose so. I'll have to buy you another cap. That makes five this term. I don't know what ls going to come of you if you don't take care of your things." Why buy him another one? It won't hurt him to do without his cap. Many a boy never wears a cap, except on very stormy days. Even If he has to go to church and Sunday Sun-day school hatless, what of It? He doesn't wear a lw.t in church anyway. any-way. And If he really wanted a cap he wouldn't lose it so many times. I believe that is true. If a child truly wants a thing he won't lose it save rarely. He is conscious of the thing he wants to keep. He loses a thing he is not conscious of wanting. The way to get him to keep his bat is to make him conscious con-scious of needing it. That you do by letting him go without it That goes for other things that he loses and forgets. Do not replace re-place it and make him go withqut until he replaces it if possible. A child forgets and loses all the things he doesn't want to keep in mind or pocket. The poor report is lost or forgotten. The good one, never The promised treat is always al-ways remembered while the dreaded chore is forgotten as easily as a slate is wiped clean. When you find tnat a child Is forgetting for-getting certain things, losing other things! habitually, consider the reason rea-son Study why he wants to lose m- for-et There is always a reason rea-son The child's mind Is always on his side. It helps him to forget and to lose undesirable thoughts. It cLes them out with a finality that U at complete as darkness at nnd-1 nnd-1 niwit Find the reason. P it accuse the chi.d of willfully .-.: t-tp does not willfully lorrtdeas. He is unconsc.ous of deSlrre S 0" Vs0 demand . Bell S5-ndIcate- |