Cultivating Self-Control in Children
By H. C. C.
Did you ever try to sink a cork in water? What happened when you removed the pressure of your hand? Just so unsatisfactory is it to attempt by outside pressure to govern the actions of the boy or girl in whom the element of self-control is uncultivated. The true parent or teacher hails with delight any indication of that inner development in the life of the child that takes away the necessity of that constant holding in check that becomes so irksome alike to the constrainer and the constrained. And so we fan and cherish and nourish the little flame that is the beginning of all true character building.—H. C. C.