The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-07-22
To Mothers.

Many a mother with a family OF little
ones about her, often hears the questions,
What can / do? Mavn't | do this or that !
Where can 1 90? These questions seem to
come most frequently al the busiest time, and
amid the most pressing cares. With many
little ones, and with perhaps limited means,
the mother is anxious and trOubled-anXIous
to train her children Alright, and troubled lest
she may neglect her household cares. They
come 10 her with their wants, ~overworked
and tired as she is, and fearful lest her work
shall not be accomplished, she turns them of
impatiently, 10 be idle and unhappy, forget
ting, too, that her impotence will be marked,
and the example only too quickly followed
Why is il, she asks herself, are they the
most troublesome when lam the most hurried?
Because, | answer, they are not provided
with sufficient occupation. Give the little
creatures enough to do, and TO do with
blocks of wood, rag-babies, little wooden or
china animals, and something to draw them
about inf it be but the cover TO a paste
board box, with a string to draw it by. Such
playthings will often amuse them better than
more costly and beautiful toys. have seen
three little boys happy all day long with such
things.
Give them paper to cut, and praise them
for the pretty things they cut. Let the older
ones make lam~plighters, and as sure as they
feel that they are helping some one, they
will be happy. They can easily learn TO
pick up all the litter they make. | have
heard mothers say their children should
never cut paper around 4 room. Better a
little, aye, even Il good deal of dirt and con-
fusion, if you can the better teach your chill
dren to be useful, and keep them happy and
contented.
They should have plymates, plenty of
them but select those that you know TO be
we'll trained-who behave as you wish your
children to behave. Give them a taste for
the society of the refined and gentle. They
will be the better able TO select for them
selves rs they mingle with the world. Re-
member there is much involved in training
up a child. 1t is not only TO make him ODE
dent, though that is the first duty, yet he is
TO be taught habits of neatness and order
his tastes are to be cultivated, REFRESHING the
evil and encouraging the good. Habits
formed during the first seven or eight years,
Will in all probability be formed for a lifetime.
Trouble comes soon enough to the little ones !;
find no unnecessary fault. Praise them for
all that you can consistently see that is good.
Teach them to work out of love to their par
entS or to each other. Let them feel that
they are a help and comfort to you. If they
quarrel, teach them the golden rule, and it
is astonishing how early they may learn to
be guided by its precepts. But abve all,
parents, friends and guardians, set them such
an example as you wish them to follow
govern your own tempers; resist your own
provOcatiOns TO fretfulneSs, Impotence, or re-
sentiment, and you will soon see them following
III your footsteps, if with earnest prayer you
lead them to Him who has said, " Suffer lit
tie children to come unto me, and forbid
them not, for Of such is the kingdom of
Heaven."-COuntry Gentleman.