p. 131 | DON'T SCOLD

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 26, 1876

DON'T SCOLD.

For the sake of your children, don't do it. It is a great misfortune to have children reared in the presence of a scold. The effect of the everlasting complaining and fault-finding of such persons is to make the young who hear it unamiable, malicious, and callous-hearted; and they often take pleasure in doing the very things for which they receive such tongue lashings. As they are always getting the blame of wrong-doing, whether they deserve it or not, they think they might as well do wrong as right. They lose all ambition to strive for the favorable opinion of the fault-finder, since they see they always strive in vain. Thus a scold is not only a nuisance, but a destroyer of the morals of children.—Sel.