Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge.
- Oliver Lodge
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![feeling from cropping up at times, nor is it desirable that they should prevent it, but they can understand and be sympathetic and not blatant and superficial and bullying about it. If a child for a time dislikes going to sleep in the dark, or wishes its door ajar,—yield to it. The dread will soon pass, if not artificially fos- tered or made much of. A child ought not to have to confess in words to his fear,—that only tends to make it more real and lasting. He will grow out of it. And, after all, this feeling of helplessness in an un- known and mysterious universe is very natural. The universe is big and mysterious and most alarming. Custom gradually makes its ordinary [29]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
