Suggestions in Home Discipline by E. C. JAEGER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 2, 1909

Suggestions in Home Discipline

By E. C. JAEGER

E. C. JAEGER

First, let God be the ruler in your own life. Show your household that in everything you hold yourself accountable to a higher authority, and they will take your commands when they see that you are held under law, as well as they.

Second, children love order; they like strict discipline if applied with loving firmness. It is the wishy-washy ways they detest. See, then, that you have order in all things; it is heaven’s first law. What is right for heaven is right for the earth home.

Third, it should be understood that all may do as they please so long as they please to do right.

Fourth, there is a way to do all the little duties about the home,—a way that instructs for beauty, facility, and ability to perform. See that you have table manners, a way to wash dishes, and an orderly arrangement for doing everything about the home.

Call your children to your knee, and have them transcribe to paper as you dictate, with tender voice (this will fix it in their memory), the way these little duties must be done. Then see that you and the children do according to the method arranged. They will delight to do this way if you are enthusiastic about it.

Some mother will say that this is a prosy way of doing; that she hasn’t time to be so “fussy;” that it would take too long to do things that way. But such is not the case; for when once these ways are learned, they make for cleverness and facility, and the mother will be saved the care and worry caused by not knowing how things are coming out. Here is a case when the old adage, “A stitch in time saves nine,” comes true. It may be slow and hard for a little time, but in the end it makes for ease.