Extract ONE
The guiding principle of this publication is that a parent or teacher may establish authority over children without using anger or violence. A second aim is to enable a child to mature both morally and intellectually using means in keeping with the characteristics of their developing mind.
Here's your first insight on "How to establish parental authority and develop morality in children."
Down through the generations, parents have tended to use three different methods to manage their children.
1. Tricks and Maneuvering. 2. Reason and Affection. 3. Authority.
Modern parents might naturally tend toward the second method - but this classic text from 1871 explains why this can be a big mistake.
A child who understands that when a parent issues an instruction, that the matter is settled - settled irrevocably - will acquiesce at once.
Children will only attempt to argue or demonstrate if they have found, by experience, that such measures are usually successful.
Even a child who has become accustomed to pleading for a change in the parent's instructions will soon drop this if she finds, owing to a change in the system of management, that the method now never succeeds.
A child who never, from the beginning, finds any success in arguing or "bargaining" with their parents, learns to not to attempt such demonstrations at all.
I hope that this "potted" introduction to the classic text on child management is sufficient to give you a flavor of the book's contents.
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