Rules for 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 what you say. 3. Never promise them anything unless you are quite sure you can give them what you promise. 4. If you tell a little child to do something, show him how to do it, and see that it is done. 5. Always punish your children for willfully disobeying your commands, but never punish them in anger. 6. Never let them perceive that they can vex you or make you lose your self-command. 7. If they give way to petulance and temper, wait till they are calm, and then gently reason with them on the impropriety of their conduct. 8. Remember that a little present 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 forbidden, under like circumstances at another. 11. Teach them that the only sure and easy way to appear good, is to be good. 12. Accustom them to make their little recitals with perfect truth. 13. Never allow tale-bearing. 14. Teach them that self-denial, not self-indulgence, is the appointed and sure method of securing happiness. 15. Guard them against the indulgence of an angry and resentful spirit. If these rules were reduced to practice—daily practice—by parents and guardians, how much misery would be prevented, how many in danger of ruin would be saved, and how largely would the happiness of a thousand domestic circles be augmented. It is lamentable to see how extensive is parental neglect and to witness the bad and dreadful consequences in the ruin of thousands.—Sab. Recorder.