The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-18
The TraInine of chudren.

Inc training OF Children.
No doubt the great majority Of parents
think they wholly fulfill their obIigaf
tons to their children when they pros
vide them with clothes. food and a COM
Portable home. They think they are mod
Ell parents when they treat them with
kindness and crafty their wishes to the
extent Of their means. But are they.
model parents. and are they kind in the
sense in which they should be kind?
Parents have great responsibilities rest
ing upon them, and those parents are
kindest who appreciate the magnitude
of these responsibilities and endeavor to
prove themselves equal TO them. From
their earliest infancy children are mold
ed by their environments. They yield
readily to the influences to which they
are subjected. Parents do not, to the ex-
tent they ought, understand the impor-
lance of studying the natures of their
children. of keeping them in contact with
Influences that tend to ennoble and re-
fine them and of being persistent in
depressing evil and Objectionable tenden-
cies which crop out in the development
of their characters.
Too many parents refuse to give the
time and take the trouble necessary TO
the proper training of their children. The
children, when infants, are left wholly
to the care of nurses. If these nurses
are women of good dispositions and right
purposes the children have a compare
lively happy existence. Their natures
are sunny. their thoughts are pure, their
manners good. and they find pleasure in
all their associations in life. If, how
ever, the nurses are ignorant, cruel,
deceitful and vicious, having no other
purpose than to discharge their duties
with the least trouble to themselves, the
children consigned to their care are very
apt to be fretful, disconnected. disagree
able, and to display evil characteristics
that shock and alarm their parents.
How many mothers are there who
are careful in selecting nurses for their
childrenl How many are there who real
lie fully the Importance of entrusting
their children only to such nurses as will
exercise benefcent influence over them!
How many are there who are so indiffer-
ent about the welfare of their children
that they do not take the trouble of find
ing out whether or not the nurses they
employ are fit to have charge of their
children!
And when parents notice their chill
dren possess evil tendencies eRnd are the
victims of Objectionable habits, how few
Of them there are who have the patience
to correct these tendencies and habits
in the manner they should be corrected!
whipping and scolding will not always
bring about the desired reform. Often
these things do more harm than good.
Correction, repeatedly, continually and
kindly administered, is the best remedy
for the evils and habits that prevent
the harmonious development of childs
character, and yet how seldom it is that
parents apply that remedy! They refuse
to endure the trouble that it's application
requires.
And as children grow older their train
ing requires the exercise of a greater
degree of intelligence. Their characters
should be studied and thoroughly under
stood, so that it may be known what
it is necessary to do to keep them from
harm, and to stimulate them in the d.
rection of high aims and noble purposes.
They should be made to feel that at
all times they are the objects of an ever
present love and a never forgetting care.
If parents fully appreciated the extent
to which the happiness and success in
life of THEM children depend upon
their training they would strive more
earnestly than they do to be equal to the
responsibilities they are under in respect
to their children.