• Abraham as a child-trainer, 14, 15.
• Accidents, sympathy with children in, 255.
• Adams, John Quincy, on the mother-love, 271.
• Addison, Joseph, on reading, 175.
• Affectation, of grief, for selfish ends, 98.
• Afraid, when a child is old enough to be, 130.
• Allowing play to a child’s imagination, 277–282 (see Imagination).
• Ambidextrous, gain of being, 59.
• Amusements:
  • training a child in, 155–164;
  • necessary to children, 155;
  • bad companionship to be avoided in, 159;
  • should have no element of chance, 160;
  • should not involve late hours, 161;
  • a choice of reading in, 176.
• Anger:
  • never right in conference with a child, 44;
  • never punish a child in, 205–216;
  • defined, 205, 206;
  • confession by a parent of its influence on him, 209;
  • its exhibit as “indignation” in punishing, 212;
  • illustration of its evil on the mission-school superintendent, 213.
• Animals:
  • training better than breaking for them, 50;
  • their knowledge through training, 143;
  • gain of calmness in training them, 220.
• Answering:
  • a child’s request deliberately, 107;
  • a child’s questions, importance of, 122;
  • wise methods of, 124–128.
• Apologizing, duty and manliness of, 172.
• Appetite:
  • early control of, possible, 99;
  • training a child’s, 109–118.
• Assertion, self, inconsistent with courtesy, 166.
• Atmosphere, influence of the home, 257–262.
  
• Bad boy, the:
  • some traits of, 207;
  • example of, in a mission-school, 213.
• Bashful child, the, 18.
• Bedtime:
  • a child’s impressibility at, 291–293;
  • a parent’s irritability at, 293–295;
  • mistakes of parents at, 295–297;
  • illustrative memories of, 297–300.
• Beginning:
  • of training for a child, 15;
  • of a child’s self-control, 94.
• Bending a child’s will, distinguished from its breaking, 38.
• Best things kept for Sunday, 146.
• Bible-study on Sunday is not always worship, 142.
• Books [see Reading].
• Braddock and Washington as contrasting cowardice and fear, 225.
• Bravery consistent with fear, 225.
• Breaking a child’s will is never right, 47–52.
  
• Bushnell, Horace:
  • on giving a premium to a child’s fretting, 97;
  • on rewarding silence with “dainties,” 97;
  • on a parent’s sympathy with a child’s plays, 157 f;
  • on the place for a parental explosion against evil, 212.
    
• Candy13, 94;
• affected by training, 27;
• should be regulated by parents, 56, 110, 112, 117.

Hagar, an example of the mother-love, 265.

Hammond, S. T., on dog-training, 50, 219.

Hannah, an example of the mother-love, 266.

Hasty denial of a child’s request, unwise, 107.

History, a child trained to enjoy books of, 180.

Home:

• amusements of, should be a centripetal force, 162;
• to be made attractive, 163.

Home atmosphere, influence of, 162 f., 257–262.

Honoring a child’s individuality 23, 29, 37, 57, 71–82.

Horses trained, not broken, 50.

Illustrations:

• on the effects of training, 24;
• Johnny and his father, as to shutting the door, 42;
• a boy addressing a visitor by a familiar title, 46;
• from animal-training, 50, 219;
• flogging children on Innocents’ Day, 54;
• the raisin-box wagon, 67;
• self-denial of Spartans, 68;
• difference between clay and the living germ, 72;
• boy who knew better than his mother how sick he was, 76;
• boy who could not spare his watch, 77;
• stanzas from Wordsworth, 81;
• a young father over-disciplining his first child, 84, 87;
• “yanking” at the reins, 91;
• “I want to be pacified,” 97;
• an American educator training the children’s appetite for food, 114;
• Shetland ponies trained to eat hay, 116;
• Bishop Patteson among the South Sea Islanders, 132;
• a boy’s rejoicing that Monday had come, 153;
• battle of Waterloo won on Eton’s playground, 161;
• Fourth of July suggesting study of American history, 184;
• the table-talk of famous guests, as a means of education, 191;
• lateral and perpendicular forces, 198;
• a parent who could punish only when angry, 209;
• a mission-school boy reproving his superintendent, 213;
• a child punished in love, responding with love, 214;
• Braddock and Washington in the presence of peril, 225;
• a baby who “doesn’t like God’s voice,” 231;
• a father overcoming his child’s fear of lightning, 231;
• power of imaginary fear over a strong man, 233;
• trusting God when afraid, 236;
• “Do robbers take dolls?” 243;
• a boy suicide, 245;
• from Herbert Spencer, on sympathy, 249;
• life and death in the atmosphere, 258;
• historical, of a mother’s love, 263–276;
• of the play of a child’s imagination, 278;
• of Christmas festivities, 284 f.;
• “the old woman that lived in a shoe,” 99.
• Patience, necessity of:
  • in dog-training and child-training, 220;
  • especially at child’s bed-time, 294.
• Patteson, Bishop, among the South Sea Islanders, 132.
• Paul’s self-control, 98.
• Person, faith rests on a, 129.
• Personal:
  • power measured by will-power, 37;
  • character to be held sacred, 39, 71;
  • rights of children, honoring, 77;
  • merit, not a means of acceptance with God, 135.
• Physical:
  • defects remedied, 25;
  • pain, endurance of, 96.
• Place of “must” in training, the, 53–60.
• Place of sympathy in child-training, 247–256.
• Playmates:
  • treatment of visiting, 171;
  • unkindnesses of, 240 [see Companionships].
• Playthings:
  • use of, in training the faculties, 160;
  • not a substitute for parental sympathy, 250;
  • imagination in the use of, 279, 280.
• Politeness, true, 166.
• Porter, President, on a college curriculum, 56.
• Power of a mother’s love, the, 263–276 [see Mother’s Love].
• Prayer:
  • meaning of, taught before the child can talk, 131;
  • faith in, not to supplant faith in God, 133;
  • sharing a child’s, 292;
  • a new meaning of, gained through a child’s good-night words, 299.
• Preferences, personal:
  • not to control study and work, 59;
  • nor reading, 177.
• Profound thought possible to a child, 80;
  • as of God’s personality and love, 131;
  • or, the doctrine of the incarnation, 136.
• Protection of a child, in danger, distinguished from punishment, 210, 211.
• Punish a child in anger, never, 205–216.
• Punishment:
  • divine, not destructive of free-will, 40;
  • teaching a child to choose obedience or, 44 f.;
  • undue severity of, 45;
  • has a proper use, 205;
  • should be a calm and judicial act, 206;
  • distinguished from prompt protection of a child in danger, 210, 211;
  • administered in love, is recognized as love prompted, 214;
  • often harder for a parent than for his child, 215;
  • not to be inflicted upon an offense of ignorance, 215;
  • child’s permanent good the purpose of, 216;
  • evil of postponing until the child’s bed-time, 294, 295.
• Puzzles, for Sunday, 151.
  
• Questioner, training a child as a, 119–128.
• Questions:
  • children encouraged to ask, 120;
  • discouraged from asking improper, 123;
  • value of a set time for answering, 124;
  • should be in order to gain knowledge, 165;
  • in a child’s companionships, 199.
    
• Value:
  • of table-talk, 187–196;
  • giving added, to a child’s Christmas, 283–290.
• Values, child-sorrows measured by those of the child, 243.
• Voice, necessity of natural tone of, in training, 219.
  
• Wagon, raisin-box, 67.
• Wanting not always reason for granting, 69.
• Washington and Braddock as to fear, 225.
• Watch, boy who could not spare his, 77.
• Waterloo, battle of, won on Eton’s playground, 161.
• Wear, parents should decide what children may, 117.
• Wellington, Duke of, quoted, 161.
• Wesley, Susannah, her method in training, 105.
• Whipping at bed-time, unwisdom of, 295.
• Will, training of, rather than breaking, 37–52.
• Wisdom:
  • in denying a child, 61–70;
  • more needed for letting alone than for commanding, 91.
• Words, good-night [see Good-night].
• Wordsworth, quoted, 81.
• Worship:
  • more than mere quietness in church, 142;
  • family, on Sunday, 150.
    
• “Yanking” at the reins is not good driving, 91.
• Young:
  • parents, in danger of over-disciplining, 83;
  • teachers, peculiar influence of, 198;
  • people, welcoming the mother’s good-night kiss, 293.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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