HOME EDUCATION | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1877

HOME EDUCATION.

1. From your children’s earliest infancy, inculcate the necessity of instant obedience. 2. Unite firmness with gentleness. Let your children always understand that you mean exactly what you say. 3. Never promise them anything, unless you are sure you can give them what you promise. 4. If you tell a child to do anything, show him how to do it, and see that it is done. 5. Always punish your children for wilfully disobeying you, but never punish in anger. 6. Never let them perceive that they can vex you or make you lose self-command. 7. If they give way to petulance and temper, wait till they become calm, and then gently reason with them on the impropriety of their conduct. 8. Remember that a little punishment, when the occasion arises, is much more effectual than the threatening of a greater punishment, should the fault be renewed. 9. Never give your children anything because they cry for it. 10. On no account allow them to do at one time what you have at another time, under the same circumstances, forbidden. 11. Teach them that the only sure and easy way to appear good, is to be good. 12. Accustom them to make their little statements the perfect truth. 13. Never permit tale-bearing. 14. Teach them that daily self-denial, not self-indulgence, is the appointed and sure method of securing happiness.—Sel.