Your Child's Not Sullen
You know he’s not, that it’s not really in his nature to be, and yet the ugly front he puts on in any "incident" makes it appear so. You're sure your friends_and visitors criticise him, and you. For instance, there’s the matter of apologising. He never will. You feel you ought to punish him. But don’t, it would be fatal-he’d retreat still further into himself. It’s more than likely that it is because he’s sorry that he can’t say so. In any case, assume it. Be sorry with and for him, Say his little apology for him, kindly, sincerely, graciously, and without reproof. The child is such an imitative mite. He’ll observe you closely. He'll follow your movements and your mood. In no time at all he'll be making them his own. Apology will come spontaneously and sincerely -and your problem be over.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 10
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147Your Child's Not Sullen New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 10
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