How to Spoil A child

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1879

How to Spoil A child.

1. Begin young by giving him whatever he cries for.

2. Talk freely before him about his great smartness.

3. Tell him he is too much for you, that you can do nothing with him.

4. Let him learn to regard his father as a creature of unlimited power, capricious and tyrannical—or as a mere whipping machine.

5. Let him learn (from his father's example) to despise his mother.

6. Do not care who or what his companions may be.

7. Let him read stories about pirates, Indian fighters, and so on.

8. Let him roam the streets in the evening and go to bed late.

9. Devote yourself to making money, remembering always that wealth is a better legacy for your child than principles in the heart and habits in the life; and let him have plenty of money to spend.

Everything is bitter to him who has gall in his mouth.