Examples of Bringing a Child Under Control
By A Mother
I SPENT the greater part of one day in trying to get my older boy, then nearly two years old, to shut the pantry door. He knew perfectly well how to do it, but determined not to. I was just as determined that he should. By five o’clock in the afternoon he was just as willing to shut it as I could ask him to be. Another time I worked for two hours to get him to give me a sharp steel fork which he knew I didn’t want him to have. Finally he gave it into my hands with a smile, and I knew I had won. I have had similar experiences with the other boy, and have found in every case that the result paid for the effort put forth.