Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare].
- Louisa Gurney Hoare
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline ... / [Louisa Hoare]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![may regulate his actions, ])ut we cannot hope to subdue his will, or improve his disposition by a display of our own wil- fulness and irritability; for our example will more than counteract the good effects of our correction. If irritated, we should wait till we are cool, before we inflict punishment, and then do it as a duty, in exact proportion to the real faultiness of the offender; not to the degree of vexation he lias occasioned ourselves. A child should be praised, reproved, rewarded, and corrected, not according to the consequences, but ac- cording to the motives of his actions— solely with reference to the right or wrong intention which has influenced him. Children, therefore, should not be punished for mere accidents, but mildly warned against similar carelessness in future. Whereas some people shew much greater displeasure with a child for](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28747112_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
