Teach Children to Speak Correctly.
NO CHILD should be allowed to speak incorrectly. If you do not teach your little one to enunciate clearly at first, it may be impossible later on; but not only be careful as to enunciation, but as to use of words. Take pains to explain why one word is correct, another incorrect. Teach your child how to open the lips well; do not allow him to talk altogether in one key, and take care that any nasal twang is carefully corrected. If a boy talks in a high, effeminate voice, cultivate his chest tones patiently but firmly—he will bless you in later years for what at present sorely tries his patience. Be careful that your girl has that "most excellent thing in woman"—a soft voice. Any inclination to stammering should be watched; the child should be trained to read aloud very slowly and deliberately. As it may prove helpful to some one, I will quote a set of rules given by Charles Kingsley to cure stammering, only premising that a child could be taught to hold the upper lip down with his finger during his half hour of practice. Open your mouth. Take full breaths and plenty of them, and mind your stops. Keep your tongue quiet. Keep your upper lip down. Use your lower lip. Read to yourself out loud. Read and speak slow, slow, slow.—Brooklyn Magazine.