Dinner Hour Discipline.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10765, 13 May 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

Dinner Hour Discipline.

One of the commonest and one of the worst habits of families is the one using the dining table and meal time tor settlement of disputes, correction ot faults and disciplining the children. Many a pleasant meal has been spoiled for all the family because of the misdemeanor of one of its members and his or her subsequent "reckoning. But it is really the only time I see the family," says the father. Then all the more reason to make it- a pleasant time instead of a disagreeable one. Indeed., it- would bo kinder to tlic guiltv offender at two o clock m the mornins: and "have it out" in the privacy of" his r-liambcr than to rum your own meal and that of everyone else ov entering into »• disciplinary homily and •i nrc ot" cross-questionings when everyone i'-lse is longing for a quiet and pcacemeal.