On this snowy Monday morning, its time to revisit our Child Rearing Tips from Days of Yore: (1.) Commence in early childhood the imposition of such tasks and duties as are suited to their intelligence and capacity. Forward and intelligent children should begin what they will understand to be work, at, say, three years of age ; backward and less intelligent children a little later. These tasks should be carefully performed at regular hours, and for them they should be rewarded, if done carefully and well, or reproved if the work is done otherwise. By so dealing with your children, habits of discipline will be formed in early life which will make it as easy for them to bo industrious afterwards as it is with others to be lazy. Ive always said I wanted children so that someone else could shovel the driveway. I probably should wait until they are at least 4 or 5 before I start making them perform hard labor, though. From Training of Children: or, How to Make the Children into Saints and Soldiers of Jesus Christ by William Booth (1884)
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:21:39 +0000
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