The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-05
IMPORTANCE OF
CHILD TRAINING
souod Advice Is Given to Parents
nv Rev. ]. A. Ten Brock


,,mreh. Episcopal, Sunday morning
az. are 10 a large extent what our
.,,s made us. Our children viii
,n,t t,e make Them. \ man begins
70 I'VE his own life al about thirty
,ti,,v-Gvr or forty. IL takes that long
81, ms 10 find why we are in the
,.,,la what are our powers, our ca
,.oci,ies aud abilities. But long before
not lime comes We have become so
90, in eur habits and ways that We
.ontinuc 20 run In the groove into
ybich hy our training we are set. one
MIGHT ,ay that a mans life began
hon ne was thirty ana ran on in his
children until they were or the same
oge Dr. Holmes says that "A child's
raining should begin one hundred
,rars before lie IS born. st Paul says
n T,mothy. / call "a remembrance the
,.ufaigned faith mat 10 IN thee which
Juslt first IN thy grandmother Lois
and In Inv mother Eunice.' Gil Tim. |.
- That love Of GOD, that zeal of
Christ which 81 Paul found III his
yonno convert he credits To his grand
mother
"ChiIis nature is very plastic. A
romrnts contact is sufficient 10 make
lifelong impression. moi merely for
time bnt for eternity. An unfortun-
ate word win ruin a life and spoil a
dsnnsirion The mos, forgiving Of
men Fald ~ those who wrong "a child.
~ were better that q mill stone were
hanged about his neck and he We're
orownod in the depth OF the sea
we each live three distinct lives
in this world.
First lifc-There is the life before
birth. true life where we receive
Impressions on our character but a
life 50 yelled in mystery that we know
oss OF the life before birth than Of the
life after death.
Second life--At birth begins the
Ia Twelve az fourteen. The training
Of a child should begin at the parting
oi the WAYS. before the child Is II day
old From one 10 six the child is
ruled Nv impulse and is a bunch OF
perpetual motion. Teach II quickness,
pr5mptuess self-control respect for
the rights of others.
SHs religions mliabyes. Teach IL
he PRAYERS before il learns Mother
Goose God should be the child's first
hero Teach il OF Fathers loving
care and az the child's mind grows
expand the idea at the ever ruling
hand 81 q loving cod
Obedience should be taught ear
N The child distinguished between
he tone OF authority and of irresolu
ton. I believe in explaining TO chill
tren hut the child must early learn.
when no explanations are volunteered
To- obey when, where ana as he Is
ted by one who has u right Ia com
mand Ton no other reason than that
The command is given.
Physical punishments should he
rarely rcsorted to. and are a confess
sion # failure by the parent i'm the
application of more proper methods
spank II necessary. but he sure it, Is
ltcausr the child is bad, not because
We parent is mad. For e is no credit
10 on" hundred and sixty-five pound
mand 10 make a twenty-five pound
child take The count.
Between six and twelve the child
adj "A
tive them adventure and provide her
''S Of right sort. a baby dislikes 10
he Kissed Yet we slobber all over it. A
CHILD nom six To twelve Graves at
lection. \ growing boy Graves IL; ar
lection IS So dear to him that he abom-
mates public display Remember
that.
Third life--At twelve or fourteen
lne child enteres upon II new life.
When the child is born we give IL
''N care. but often ID enters upon
"' III" of adolescence without one
"'io of sympathy. This is the storm
'Iu stress period; now life habits are
,0rth"d which make or ruin life.
"o" 'are We let children he ignorant
=" nose things which concern their
.u"" physical and moral being. those
'"'nsS which concern their physical
"uo moral happiness. those things
WI" II ought Ia he the sweetest and
'"'S'' which IL rightly given will ele-
,""' We leave To ignorance or evil
minded nrormers.
Nothers should teach their daugh :
as ~ TIE fearful risk they run when
Ivy marry men who have lived care
'N's. No girl should ever con
49," ~ become engaged Ia a man un-
!" 'h' knows positively that the man
man OF clean life. Parents should
"'''iN refuse IN allow their daugh
=" associate in any respect with
r 'Ss men. The risk is too great
ar" plenty of noble. manly men
livery respectable man or woman
INSIST ON q single moral stand
I'VE same for men and women.
'"'S Is the gravest question tina,
our republic. 1t once overthrew
Homc II levelcd naughty Ven-
-. Wv" the mire Of her canals. Let
II axe bold stand least in the END
n "'g our fair nation down with
"em into the dust
aver fourteen is the age OF ro-
,""'e' Roys and girls are droomcrs:
d.. nave plans. Give them healthy
or, LUZ ny good reading. not the mod.