The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-12-03

did not set, and he could not bear
the thought that the man who had
trusted him and believed in him
should think that he had gone wrong.
When you have obtained a boys
confidence and affection. when he feels
that you have q real interest In him.
and that you believe that there ID
something In him. you have a tremen-
dous hold upon him.
The head OF a Chicago business
house has . large number of boys
under him. For years he has felt 9
kindly interest in these boys. taking
particular pains to notice them, to
watch their work. to praise them
when they do wen. to correct them
gently when they fail, and TO mani
fest In general q kindly interest In
their AFFAIRS. He says the results
have been marvellous and that the
boys have shown wonderful develop
ment under the influence OF his APP
probation and praise.
This man told me that he corrects
the habits of his boys without their
realizing the influence he brings to
bear on them. He enters their sports,
plays bali with them, and by his ex-
| ample makes them feel ashamed OF
doing things that are unbecoming to
gentlemen.
Children are especially susceptible
to praise. A boy win work harder to
get the appreciation of those who
trust him and believe in him than for
almost anything else. Nothing ex-
cept blame will so dampen his en-
thusiasm as the lack of recognition
Of good work or failure to appreciate
his attempts to please.
/ know a mother who reared her
children upon the plan Of praise. She
never missed an opportunity 10 COM
mend them for doing well, or to show
appreciation Of their efforts to do
right This, she says, has had In
finitely more influence for good than
perpetual seedlings. "Don'ts" hahn.
discourage and dwarf more children
than almost anything else.
Many a child has been nagged,
bullied, scolded, for every little fault
or mistake, until it became discour-
aged, when a little timely praise and
commentator would have worked
wonders in getting the best out OF IT,
Highly organized, sensitive children,
have often been seriously injured, or
their characters even ruined, by the
harsh methods Of those who do not
understand the child nature and who
scold and nag and bully them into
obedience. Such children become sui.
len, obstinate and irresponsible.
The greatest thing in the rearing
and education Of a child is to de-
velop his natural. normal setter
preston. The youthful mind longs
for activity; the pent-up forces with
in are struggling to express them
selves; but IL spontaneity is repeat
edly crushed out, II the chIId's express
sion is constantly repressed with
don't do this" and don't do that,
the ambition may be ruined, the pow
er Of seIf-expression lost, so that the
best in the child may never be devel'
oped.
When a child does not show en-.
thusiasm in study, in work. there Is
something wrong, for enthusiasm and
bubbling buoyRncy are as natural to
child life as song to the bobolink.
Spontaneity is absolutely neces
J cary to originality-yet the buoyancy
the enthusiasm, of many a youth ID
absolutely crushed before majority IL
reached, because of constant repres
sion.
. The chief duty of the father is not
} only to feed and clothe his son and
get all possible work out Of him un
: til he is twenty-one. but he is bound
to watch with tender care the menta
} unfoldings, the aspirations, the ben
: planted by the Creator himself in tbs
, breast OF the child. II is a great mis-
+ fortune that so many parents feel Al
ownership in a child. They look upOE
him as a sort OF chattel instead of /
sacred gift, which they have received
t in trust. for which they assume re
! sponsibility, and enter into an implies
agreement to care for mind as well a
! body; to guard, guide and rear will
the tenderest care and greatest soliei
} tude.
: 1t is a fathers duty not to try q
: bend the human sprout to suit hi
\ notions, but to watch the tendency o
the child: to encourage. not stihe. hi
natural bent
Every father should regard tn
: child as a sacred trust, bringing witt
! him into the world = sealed messag
t which he is bound to deliver ike
r man and a. hero. This sealed messag
4 within him is sacred: 1t IL not sVel
. for the father TO read. But it II th
E parents duty to prepare his child .
deliver the message he brings, to bel
D him TO live UP to his ideals.
PervsrsIty Of human Nature.