HOW TO SPOIL A CHILD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 209, 15 September 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW TO SPOIL A CHILD.

The following rules were racent!* pubFshed by '• The White Ribbon.'' By carefully following them parents can rely on a prompt and easy success n the spoiling of their offspring:— 1. In the child's presence tall friends of its cdleverness, and let it show off 2. In the chold's presence, hold it up as a pattern for another child. 3. Tell it how prettty it looks. 4. Help it to admire its new clothes, and call friends' attention to same. 5. Never say "No" to a request, but g : ve it whatever it asks for, more especially if it cries and persists in asking. 6. Let tha ch:ld bear you say be s too much for you; you can do nothing with Trim. (He is thus encouraged f o keep it up.) WHEN PA AND MA DIFFER 7. Let the chilJTiear and know father and mother disagree as to how to punish and how to train him. 8. Let lnm he told, "I'll tell father when ho comas home, and he w.ill wlr'p you." (A monstrous injustice n father, and robbing the child of the lov'ng confidence in his father.) !>. If a child is disob,edy?nt, say, "Never mind, when it is older it will be hotter."' 10. If you have told a child to do something, don't insist if the child dolays and is unwilling. 11. If a healthy child gets tired over somo task, make excuses for it, but don't insist tha task must lx? completed. 12. Slap t for being tiresome and naughty, and then kiss it if it cries. 13. Don't punish quietly and deliberately, but irritate a child by "nagging," by crossing it, by slapping and bitting it. ASK NO QUESTIONS. 14. U : ve it money to spand, and do not ask questions as to how, when, or where it is spent. 15. Don't keep an eye on its companions or concern yourself about its playtimes. 16. Let him read whatever Ue likes. 17. Whip wei! for a trifle; show amusement and laugh at a vice. IS. Neglect the advice "Train up ,i child in the way he should go."' 19. Do yourself what you tell your child not to do. 20. Devota yourself to making money, to pleasure, to faslron, and let your child grow as it will. 21. Laugh and sneer at religion and te.ototalism; joke about young men sowing w Id "oats."