New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-05
Tarrytown. y. Y

Tsrrytown. y. Y.
A BELIEVER IN CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
CORPORAL punishment IN the home depends very
much on the kind OF home and the kind Of child
YOU have in the home Most OF the articles have
ever read which oppose corporal punishment seem
to take it for granted that there Is only one child IN
the home; but how about home where there are
four five o. six children, each with dnerent us
position. temper and mood and all near each otner
In age? can a mother who has large family. with
one servant take time TO sit down and reason with
each child about every little thing? She has plenty
TO do II she sees that they have regular meals and
are properlv clothed and does the mending and a
thousand other things that hother Oh A4i e
family usually finds 70 do
think a request command from the parent
to the child is sufficient reason for child to obey
7 have cat down and reasoned with a child and ex
pIained all the why's and wherefores that he could
not have a desired article. and when was all
through the child said: We'll. can't I have H.
anyway have had many such experiences with
children.
Children will sometimes display III temper when
denied a thing that they want You try TO make
them forget il by pleasant talk by diverng their
mind 10 some game; they still stay cross and do
naughty things for the next hour. A good spanking
is wonderful remedy. and clears the atmosphere
amazingly
rudeness in the street and IN the school, not only
from the children. but I regret to say. from the
teachers also. Ny little girl came home the other
day and said her teacher banged a girls head
late 1 wouldn't want such a teacher TO have the
power 3I CORPORA ma Tcbs ne and f5I o,
vitality. their management IS much more cOmph-
Gated and difficult than II they are quiet and not
very vigorous. even though healthy
/ do not believe IN beating child; but do know
family Of growing boys. and think the father IS
the one TO apply ~ Ios ~ Is nSrb d. IOF ' Sp
ten years ] certainly would not whip child under
naughty but nothing more. II is after children
FIVE years old that they begin 20 assert themselves
So many parents are blind to their chidren.s
faults Many are TOO lnd9Ient ProIpelly 10 49,
ones eyes the faults Of the children than II Is
actions and speech before the habit IS formed
I know "A woman who, when her little girl was
say that when her daughter grew older she would
love her mother so much that she W4uld one
from love. The daughter grew up selnsh ana m
doleut and stl continues TO have ner own , ~@{'
much TO her mothers sorrow and disappOlntInenIt
punishment. and there are others with whom no
place OF severe discipline. q am talking Of chill
dren brought up in homes OF Refinement ana com
the care of children for few hours 81 tne Day
think that children are always good ~ groPerG
entertained all the time. and are on tlelr good pc
ibnaI get thoroughly cross and in tempered in
their own homes. because the entertaining anu
Some children more Of a complex problem
TO train than others You have 70 Try an methoIS
with them. and then adopt that when seems 10 III
the best.
Love your children all you can. give them al
the Mica stIres and comforts YOU car. but do give
them enough strict discipline to send them out
into the world with "a due regard for the rights OF
others with enough common sense and honesty
nd truthfulness and politeness and backbone %
become worthy and substantial men and women IN
the warfare Of life ,,
Corporal punishment for children IS subject
IN which I feel strongly. and am glad Of the
0y,rortuuftv To- express my views in my favorite
"a ner Ever since marriage thirteen years
spp my husband has taken The Tribune. ard we
think IL Is the paper LEDoNlAh-
Manhattan.