HOW TO SPOIL A CHILD.
1. Begin young, by giving him whatever he cries for. 2. Talk freely before him of his great cleverness. 3. Tell him he is too much for you — that you can do nothing with him. 4. Let him learn to regard his father as a creature of unlimited power, capricious and tyrannical ; or a mere whipping machine. .">. Let him learn, from father's examp'e, to despise his mother. (i. Do not care who or what his companions may be. 7. Let him read stories about pirates. Indian fighters, and so on. 8. Let him roam the streets in the evening and go to bed late. 9. Devote yourself to making money ; remember always that wealth is a better legacy for your child than principles in the heart and habits in the life, and let him have plenty of money to spend. — Exchange.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 6
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