Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-03
Dangers in Bringing Up Children.

The cruelty done to children by some
parents, as well as by teachers, is in
| describable. Children arc held to be OF
the same temperament of the same
adaptability to learn as their parents and
teachers : yet the hoy who cannot learn
his lessons as quickly as another is
Grown people forget the intense misery
to which children are thus exposed.
The child's horizon is so limited that he
sees no remedy to his woes, and his sor-
row absorbs his whole little being.
/" Fathers, provoke not your children
to wrath, lest they be discouraged" II
the life of child be embittered the re-
suit is shyness and secret aversion.
Even child feels Itself wronged, and a
sense of bitterness is implanted in its
heart. We can never think without
pity of parent who lost promising
son by death, and was haunted through
life by his parental severity. my boy"
he said to friend, fused to think me
cruel, and he had too much reason to do
SO but he dld not know how loved
him Mt the bottom Of my heart andnow
| it is too late I"
We often think when we hear Of par
ents beating their children that they
should rather be inflicilng the punish
ment upon themselves. They have been
the means Of bringing into being the in
heritors of their own moral nature. The
| child does not make his own temper !;
nor has any control while child over
| its directions. III the parents have con-
! ferred an irritable temper on the child
tits duty on their part to exercise self
control, forbearance and patience, so
that the influence of daily LIE may, in
the course of time, correct and modify
| the defects of its birth.
But the "child's will must be broken r.
] There is no greater failacy than this.
Will forms the foundation of character.
| Without the strength of viii there will
be no strength of purpose. What is
necessary is not to break the child's will,
| but to educate it in proper directions !;
/ and this is not to be done through the
agency of force or fear. A thousand in
stances might be cited in proof Of this
statement.
When the parent or teacher relies
| chiefly upon pain for controlling the
child's will, the child insensibly associ-
| ates duty and obedience with fear and
terror. And when you have thus associ-
| ated command over the will If others
with pain, you have done all that you
could to lay the foundations Of bad
character---a bad son, a bad husband, a
1ad father, a bad neighbor, and bad clti-
zen. Parents may not think Of this when
they are beating into their children
their own faults but it is true, never
| sheless. There is no doubt that the
| commar d over the will of others by pain
leads by degrees to all the several stages
of irritation, injustice, cruelty, oppIes-
sIon and tyranny.
When Euffuroius, of Cologne, heard a
great cry issuing from school louse he
opened the door, entered, and rushed up
ike hon, and, raising his staff against
The teacher and his assailant, deliver, d
he boy from their hands. "What are
| YOU doing, tyrant2' he said lyon are
laced here to teach, not to kill schol
ars. /"
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