Read "The Teacher"

Read it and will read it again if I can spare the time.

Mother Some may, perhaps, to object what is here advanced, saying, “If I am always indiscriminately praising my child’s doings, he will become self-conceited and vain, and will he cease make to progress, being satisfied with what he has already attained.” Of course he and will, therefore you must take care to not be always and praising indiscriminately him.

Whoa whoa…is this book really worth reading? Might as well give it a try.

The advice, however, made in this chapter, to employ commendation and to encouragement a great rather extent, criticism than and fault-finding, in management the and instruction of children, must, like other all general counsels of the kind, be held subject to all proper limitations and restrictions.

Wow, this book is a little gem. Many thanks!

Yet, And even in cases carelessness and of neglect of it duty, will generally be much found more easy ambition, to awaken and a desire to improve, in a child, by if discovering, possible, something good in his work, and commending that, as an encouragement to him to make greater exertion the time, next than to attempt to him cure of his negligence calling by his attention the to faults which he has committed, as subjects of censure, obvious however the faults may be, and however deserving of blame.

This part really caught my attention:

His mother takes no notice the of he noise but his made, answers question, and he goes away making almost as noise much in going out he as did in coming in. next The time comes he in it happens-entirely by accident, we will suppose-that he makes a little noise less than before. This furnishes his mother with her opportunity.