1. What certain acts or omissions entitle a boy to be classified as "wayward?" 2. The first sign of waywardness is the breaking of what commandment, if any? 3. Under any condition would you let your boy know that you considered him wayward? 4. Should your regard for, as shown by your treatment of the wayward boy, differ in the slightest degree from your regard for your treatment of the circumspect, dutiful, and obliging boy? 5. Does the worst tendency of the boy call for any more from us than mere direction? 6. Is not the boy's worst offence a bad form of satisfying a good desire? 7. What is your method of dealing with your boy? Is it "Never do that" or "Better to do this?" 8. Do you ever undertake to show the boy how much more of the thing he is after he can get out of a method that is all around helpful than one that is all around harmful. 9. How would it do to substitute jointly planned "Do's" for unqualified "Don'ts"? 10. In almost every instance can you not justly ascribe the boy's waywardness to an unnatural companionship on your part or to no companionship at all? |