A RECIPE FOR BOY-SPOILING

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, 7 January 1909, Page 37

A RECIPE FOR BOY-SPOILING

Parents are often advised in regard to the proper of their" 'children. It is not often that a writer gives instructions as to *the best means of spoiling a boy, but this we find lately has been done by a correspondent in a home weekly. Here are the directions : — / Let him have plenty -of spending money. Allow him £o choose his companions and never ask who they are. -' t Give him a key and permit him to be out at nights and get home when he pleases. . . Make no inquiry .as to where and with whom he spends his leisure moments. • ' f - Have him, to understand that money and manners are substitutes for morality. ' Teach him to expect pay for every act of helpfulness 'to others. Let him believe that it is a' disgrace to exercise at the end of a hoe handle, so long as he or, you can pay a man to take that exercise. Show him that you have no faith in churches or teachers. Teach him and train him thus, and if he doesn't go to bad 'twill not be your fault.