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DO NOT URGE YOUR CHILD

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 3, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 5.

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DO NOT URGE YOUR CHILD.

If your child can not concentrate its mind or commit to memory without great difficulty, or if it seems backward, do not urge it to study. No development which is forced is natural or normal. The mind may be developing unevenly. When the brain cells are more fully developed and the nerve cells more mature, the faculties will balance and the child will become normal, evenly developed. But he must be encouraged instead of being discouraged, for otherwise the result may be disastrous. It is cruel to keep telling a child that he is dull or stupid, or that he is not like other children. The discouraging pictures thus impressed upon his plastic mind will cling to it and become indelible in the brain of the man, and handicap him for life.—Success.