HINTS ON HOW TO SPOIL A CHILD.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 248, 18 February 1916, Page 7

HINTS ON HOW TO SPOIL A CHILD.

NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL. 1. In the child’s presence, tell friends of its cleverness, and let it show off. 2. In the < hild’s presence, hold it up as a pattern for another child. 3. Tell it how pretty it looks. 4. Help it to admire its new clothes, and call friends’ attention to same. 5. Never say “No” to a request, but give it whatever it asks for, more especially if it cries and persists in asking. 0. Let a c hild hear you say he is too much for you; you can do nothing with him. (He; is thus encouraged to keep it up.) 7. Let .1 c hild hear and know father and mother disagree as to how to punish and how to train him. 8. Let him be told “1 11 tell father when he comes home, and he w ill whip you.” (A monstrous injustice to father, and robbing the child of the loving confidence in his father.) 9. If a child is disobedient, say, “Never nnnd, when it is older it will be better.” 10. If you have told a child to do something, don’t insist if the child delays and is unwilling. 11. If a healthy child gets tired over some task, make excuses for it, but don’t insist the task must be completed. 12. Slap it for being tiresome, and naughty, and then kiss it if it cries. 13. Don’t punish quietly and deliberately, but lriitate a child by “nagging,” by crossing it, by slapping and hitting it. 14. Give it money to spend, 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 abouts its playtime. 16. Let him read whatever he likes. 17. Whip well for a trifle; show amusement and laugh at a vice. 18. Neglect the* advice, “Train up a child in the way he should go.” 19. Do yourself what you tell your child not to do. 20. Devote yourself to making money, to pleasure, to fashion, and let your child grow as it will. 21. Laugh and sneer at religion, teetotalism, joke about young men sowing “Wild Oats.”