The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-11-19
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From The Methodist Protestant
Our Children.

We o ften hear persons congratulate them.
| selves on the antquatcd notions of their faith
ers being done away with-tbat Solomon s
ideas of training up youth are becoming
obsolete. and that moral snasion, as thew
term it, is the ONLY kind of restraining innu-
cnce that our rising generation should be
subjected TO- BIT the fact is. there is but
very little OF even the latter influence in the
system OF iamily discipline: and children are
lett pretty much 10 themselves to carry out
thclr own lncllnations and propcnsties as they
desire. ms IS owing to mistaken notions
held by parents. that children must not be
thwartcd in their plans that their wishes
must all be sratifcd, and their whms, too.
as Tar as possible, or else their tempers will
be soured. But it is not possible always to
crafty them-they have to be denied some
times, as that mother knows. whose little
three years old, pcttcd and STAMPED with so
violence because he could not have the moon
to play with.
1t is preparation for the future that parents
should consider in the discipline of their
children. They cant always keep them
under their eye, nor anticipate a II their wants
and crafty all their desires. A time will
come when the son will issue from the pater-
nal home, and enter on the busy scenes of
lic--lts ncver-ending cares, trials. and dsap-
polntments and how is he to encounter
those nnaccuStomcd to self-dcnals and prlva-
tons lie won't bear them at least he
VIII never have energy enough to surinount
oillcultles, or persery ance enough to pursue
any plan that requires time and patience for
IT'S execution. Young people must have their
lr'aIS as well as grown mp ones. Uniner-
rnpted success in their plans and sports -a
qualification Of all their wishes, is as unhealthy
on Their characters as it would he on that of
heir parents. Even if it were possible to
hulnor ali their whims it is not right TO do it.
-FOUR child has propensity to seize on the
tongS or shovel, or the knives and forks; TO
scrlhble on your handsomely bound books,
or play with the highly wrought ornaments
OF your centre table. 10 avoid this and to
ward OFT temptation, you put these articles
out Of sight. Now dom do this. Let them
remain in their usual places, and teach the
child not to touch them that there are some
things which he must be denied. II would
soon be accomps he'd. and the effect would
be saluary. Example is to be preferred to
precept generally; but if we wish child to
grow up amiaLle and seEdenyng or to be
possessed of the virtue opposite to seIfshness,
he viii not be apt to learn It from the parents
example. A fond mother takes pleasure in
gratifying her child she denies herself actual
necessities that she may contribute to his
wants The child witnesses these sacrifices
as they are daily made and the more she
grants, the more cXalting he becomes. until
he ceases to receive aid as favor, but dc.
mands it as right.
From the time Of our Revelation, when the
boys OF Boston Common carried their COM
plants to Gen Gage that the British soldiers
mad beaten down their sliding grounds. that
they had borne it SO long, and would bear it
no lonecr-till the present, The progress of
young America has been onward, and of late
years, with such rapid strides, that it has
left leading strings far behind until as some
writer says, there is not another country in
the world where there are so many badly
governed children.
There is nothing that contributes more to
the pleasure and happiness CT family than
Spnghty, intelligent. and wel-behayed
children. Each one contributing his or her
part to the general sociallty, aiding each other
in all their difficulties. avoiding unpleasant
illusions, and bringing all their good innuen-
ces to completing the harmony of the whole.
But spoiled and INDUCED children can never
be loved. Parents may wink at their wiilful
ways, and thus humor the ncipIcnt germs of
passion, until they have grown up Tians,
and are no longer under the control of paternal
authority; but they will learn in the end, how
g Sharper than a serpent's tooth, 1t Is
To have thaniless child.''