The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-22
Duty Of Parents.

4 Children should be sent to school in
good physical condition. If they are
sick they should not go at all. They
should have full hours of healthy sleep,
"early to bed' habitually, and not
very 9 early to RISE" if they seem to
need more sleep. feel as though
am committing sin when l awake a
child in the morning from sound
slumber, even when 1 have been
begged by the child to do so. 1t seems
necessary to do this sometimes, in
order to break child of night wake.
fullness and late morning sleep. But
sleep is literally "tired natures sweet
restorer." Brain repair and healthy
physical growth take place best during
the hours of sleep. The brain uses up
by its work certain portions of the
nutriment which comes from our daily
food, and these must be supplied in
our food from day to day, or the brain
will work feebly or break down easily.
| believe that many dull scholars are
made so by poor food, much poor food
being misnamed erich" ~.
feel condemned when nv children
have to hurry to school, worried bv a
fear OF being late. The home ar
rangements ought to be such that the
children can easily be ready in season.
and walk calmly to. school with no
anxiety about hardness. The teachers do
we'll to try to promote punctuality, both
for the good order of the school, and
for each child's education in good
habit. But when children get such a
dread of being late that they much
prefer to be absent, the matter is over.
done. More than once when nv little
daughter found herself starting so late
that she wished to run most of the way
to school (more than mile) L have
told her not to do SO, that the tardy
mark on the monthly report, and the
staying q little while after school,
hours were not half so bad as a head.
ache for the day, and the necessity for
studying while over-heated and tired
This is part of her physical education
and a very important one.
If some children need urging to their
studies, others need holding back quite
as much. This little girl, finding her
self 100 in most of her studies at the
early spring examinations, announces
| iASA ihpSlllAOll VI lOO Ill ill DIT Ulc
close of the year. Not long after she
asks me seriously. (which would
you rather have me do?-study at
noon-time and so be 100 in all my
studies, or go out and play and mo-
be above 95?" OF course l did no
hesitate in my reply. l said: :" Play
by all means, even though you barely
pass { the lowest average for passing
from one grade to another being fixeC
at seventy-fve) and if you study a
noon recess instead of playing, l SHOULD
want to punish you, as nature surel,
would by making both mind and body
suffer from mental overwork'' Sc
the little girl and her companion:
| played ball and ''run, sheep rum
and examination found her fresh anc
calm, and apparently not at all worried
until she was more than half through
the exercises, which occupied the
forenoons of one week. Then she re
ceived letter from very dear frien(
who had just passed her examination
in another place. The writer said mo
at all in boastful spirit.) II wa;
100 in every study, which is no un
common thing for me- Then oul
! LITTLE ssirl >v~s reused to enauisssion. US
could plainly see, and she was full O
anxiety about the remaining examina
ton, wishing to study both early ant
late, which 1 discouraged. When she
came home and announced her higl
average, she thought was not proper
ly glad. l told her had been glad al
of the time to see her finely and in ex
cellent health and spirits, but within
few days l had begun to fear that sh,
might gain a triumph at too great ;
cost. Her high average did not please
me so much as the sincere regret sh,
seemed to feel that she was marked
higher in reading than a little frient
who really is a better reader than she
is-for this, too, is an important par
in her education. 1 tell all this by way
of illustration; might also tell of the
efforts l have to make to induce anoth
er child to pay decent attention t.
study, SO full % play is the child''
mind. l am not at all sure that the
latter mentioned will not some day out.
strip all the others, even in mental
achievement, but it does not now seen
probable. Every one knows that pre-
cocious children seldom do the best il
later life, and never envy the parent:
of unusually forward scholars. y Cor,
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