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Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

by Abbott Jacob

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It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of authority as the basis of the parental government and the substitution of some weak and inefficient system of artifice and manoeuvring in its place. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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...consists ina _systematic effort to develop in the mind of the child a love of theprinciple of obedience_, by express and appropriate training. _Parents not aware of the Extent of their Responsibility_. Many parents, perhaps indeed nearly all, seem, as we have already shown, to act as if they considered the duty of obedience on the part of theirchildren as a matter of course. They do not expect their children to reador to write without being taught; they do not expect a dog to fetch andcarry, or a horse to draw and to understand commands and signals, withoutbeing _trained_. In all these cases they perceive the necessity of trainingand instruction, and understand that the initiative is with _them_. If ahorse, endowed by nature with average good qualities, does not work well, the fault is attributed at once to the man who undertook to train him. Butwhat mother, when her child, grown large and strong, becomes the trial andsorrow of her life by his ungovernable disobedience and...