The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-03
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maid, says:
''Never whip children just before they
retire to rest. Let the fathers caress. |
the mothers kiss be the last link between, |
the days pain or pleasure and the nipht's |
sleep. Send the children to bed happy.
LII there is sorrow, punishment or dis |
grace, let them meet it in the daytime
and have hours of play and thought in
which to recover happiness, which is
childhood's right Let the weary feet.
to busy brain, rest In bed happy"
That's all right, of course to some
extent We used to talk that way before
we were q parent. We knew O. good
deal more about children anyhow before
we had to grapple with them than we do
now. We used to be great sticlzler for
moral suasion and love and parental gush
than we are now.
Our theory now IL relation to children
is changed from what it was formerly.
We maintain now, after several years.
study OF the primary biped, that there
Is style OF child that canuot go to sleep
at night unless spanked.
We have in our mind little child OF
the masculine style of architecture, who
will lie and sob, and kick the clothes off,
and be mean and restless for two hours
II you forget about him, but if you 90
and turn down the coverlid and fan his
person with an overshoo he will quiet
down and be asleep in five minulos.
lie is not to blame for being the victim
TO this habit, but he is that way, and he
can't help it. He is tied to his spank
Just as you, gentle reader, arc tied to
your maturer habits.
Strange freaks do often grow into con-
tirmed habits that it is almost impossible
| Sh0ISn of
victims of strange and unnatural GUS
toms like older people.
Ihls child, for instance, did not at
hrst apparently care whether he had his
spanking at 8 p. III. or earlier, but later
he was SO regular in his demnnd for cor
poral punishment that you could set your
watch by him IIo was also so attached
to certain kind Of arctic ovtrshoo that
you couldn't accomplish anything by
padding him with any other style of
, hastisement. Love is good thing,
nd we often wish that more Of it Lad
.een lavished on us during our past life,
but after all, there arc children that Go
not yearn for affection half as much as
they do for armed aggression. Of course
your conscience smitcs you ut intervals
when you go past the little bed after the
conflict Is over and peace and slumbors
are tho vlctors. Something may como
up in your throat whel, you sec the little
rebel lying with his feet Oh the pillow
and his head down at tho foot of the cot,
and little tear on his eyclasho.. You
feel, perhaps, rs though it looked like
taking an undue advantage for n 200
pound man to catch II three year old boy
when no is unprcparcd and paddle him
with an oyershoc, and yet sometimes it
has to bo done.
We know that in Our own case corporal
punishment was rcsortcd to while all
tho other boys in tho family escaped
with moral sut5ion. Th G result is what
might have boon expected. We arc tho
, only one of all that promising collection
OF boys whose promissory notes have
gained q world wide circulation to-day.
, While the other boys wcro contpnied to
! plod along and run up little petty ac-
counts ut the store, We struck out boldly
toward fame and insolvency.
You can encourage child with a
press-board sometimes and thus givo
him an impetus which will aid him all
through his ifc.-NyC'S B0OlucroJ.q.