The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-26
Training Up a Boy.

Have you a boy from five to eight years
old? 1t 50, ii is a matter of the greatest i'm
portance that YOU train him up right. Teach
him from the start that he can t run across
the floor, whoop. chase around the back
yard. or use up a few nails and boards IL
make carts or boats. If You let him chase
around he'll wear out shoes and clothes,
and nails and boards cost money.
Train him to control his appetite. Give
him the smaller piece of pie, the bone end
of the steak, the small potato. and keep the
butte; dish out Of his reach. BY teaching
him to curb his appetite You can keep him
in good humor. Boys are always good hui
mOred when hunger gnaws AZ their stomachS.
If he happen to break a dish, thrash him
for it that will mend the dish and teach
him a lesson at the same time.
II YOU happen to notice that your boy )
shoes are wearing out. take down the rod
and give hmm a pceline. Those shoes We're
purchased only ten months ago. and although
you have Worn out two PAIRS OF boots during
that time. the boy has no business to be SO
hard on shoes. By giving him a sound
thrashng you VII prevent the shoes from
wearing out.
When you want your boy to 90 Oft on an
errand YOU should state it and add
Now 90 a. quick a. You can. and If YOU
axe gone over five minutes III cut the hide
off your back.
He VII recognize the necessity Of haste,
and will hurry up You could not do the
errand Yourself inside of fifteen minutes.
but lie is not to know that. 1t you want
him to pile wood, the way to address him IS
thus:
Nov see he;c. Henry, I wait every stick
Of that wood piled up before noon. If |
come home and find you haven't done II,
Ill lick you till You can t stand up.
1t is more than a boy Of his size can do III
a Whole day but You are not to blame that
he is not thirteen years old instead OF eight.
If you heart that any one IN the neigh
borhood has broken 4 window, stolen fruit
or unhinged a gate. be sure that it was your
boy. Ii he denies il, take down the roe,
and tel him that you will thrash him -
death if he doesn't v up. but that you
will spare him if he does. He will own up
to a lie in order to get rid of the thrashlng,
and then YOU can talk to him about the face
Of liars and bad boys. and end mp by saying:
Go to bed now, and III the morning. i
attend to your case.
If you take him to church and he LOOKS
around, kicks the seat. or smiles at some
boy acquaintance, thrash him the moment
YOU get home. He ought to have been ~
tening to the sermon. If he sees all the
other bows going to the circus, ard wants
fifteen cents to take HIM III, tell him what
awfully wicked thsngs circuses are how
they demoralize boys; how he ought to bf
thrashed for even seeing the procession g
by and then, when he sound asleep, dc
I, YOU sneak off, pay half a dollar to 90 in, and
come home astonished al the menagerle. anc
pleased with the wonderful eymnaStlc teats
E Keep your boy steadily at school: hav'
work for him every holiday thrash him |
he wanes to 90 eshing or nutting restrain
! his desire for skates. kites or marbles rout'
him out at daylight. cold or hot, cutf hl
ears for asking questions make his clothe
out of your cast off garments, and you
!. have the satisfaction Of knowing, when oil
!. and gray-headed. that you would have train
ed up a useful member Of society had h
not died just as he was getting well broke
: in.