Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-01-03
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TRAINING LITTLE CHILDREN.
A Woman OF Experience Says, "Mothers
Live Close to Your Little Children"

A Woman OF Experience Says, "Mothers,
Live Close to Your Little Children"
1t has always been mystery to mo
how mothers could deceive their chill
dren when they go to make calls and
visits, attend church socials and thea
tiers and even church. l have seen
mothers get some one to take the atten-
tion of the little ones while they would
slip off. The baby would cry when it
knew its mother was gone. The little
ones are thus taught deception before
they leave the cradle.
From long experience think the best
way is to tell them you are going, but
will be back as soon as you can, and tell
them where you are going 1t seems to
satisfy the child, and it will tell others
mamma has gone to such a place, bat
she will come back as soon as she can.
Mothers make great mistake when
they do not live close to Sheir little
ones, and when they begin to talk it is
time to begin to teach them their let
tiers. They will learn easier then than
at any other time.
1t is very easy task for a mother to
point to the letter A and say, This is
A for apple, this is b for baby, this is C
for cat, and this is d for dog" Get it
once fixed in the child's mind, and it
never forgets. l taught all my children
at home, and some of them could read
in the second reader VIXEN they were
4 years old.
The professor at our academy once
said to me: There are but two fami-
lies who patronize my school that teach
their children at home, and one of them
is yours. l assure you those taught at
home have q great advantage over those
that are not
I think it is cruel to drive very young
children to school to sit in an uncom-
Portable position for hours listening to
things they DO not understand. That is
the case in country schools where there
are but one room and one teacher. l
have known parents to drive their lit
tie children to school with switch, but
I never knew one that was treated thus
that made good scholar. When the
child is in school, the teacher perhaps
is rough and cruel, and some of the
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be punished When that is being DONE
it is enough to scare the little ones into
fits
A mother can teach a child easier
than any teacher. She can make play
of teaching by spelling words on blocks
that have letters on them. Some of my
children became so anxious to learn the
alphabet that they would ask me the
names of letters ON the stove when /
was cooking. They went first to select
school in our country neighborhood. A
friend said to me, why is it that your
children have their lessons better than
mine when they do SO much work morn
ings and evenings and mine don It do
anything" I said: 81 think it is the
work that helps them. let them help
me, and it does them good. After they
work at some light work an hour or
more they will sit quiet and study their
lessons much better than when they do
not work. And l think it is of as much
Importance for childen to learn to work
as it is to be educated" Parents, live
close to your little children, for of such
is the kingdom.
MRS J. W. ARCHARD.
ClermOntyille O.