Excerpt from The Government of Young Children Our aim in the discipline of children, says Edward Howard Griggs, is to lead them to love and will the best. This is the aim, and it is the only right aim. The governing of our children is not for the purpose of protecting ourselves or themselves or the public from their misdeeds, nor even for the purpose of forcibly preventing them from committing them. There is but one true and final motive to good conduct, says Mrs. Wiggin, and that is a cease less longing to be in perfect harmony with the principles Of everlasting right. Another way of saying the same thing is to remark that, while the discipline of obedience to us may be necessary during early childhood, it is only in order that the child may become able later to obey himself. Patterson Du Bois puts it this way: 'i will conquer that child, no matter what it may cost him!' boasts the misguided parent. But sup pose the parent should say, 'i will help that child to conquer himself, no matter what it may cost me.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.