Your conversation around children has such an exceptional value, and in many instances your words alone may change the destinies of young minds. To properly train children, their attention should always be directed as much as possible upon those qualities that have worth. The way they are spoken to will largely determine where he or she is going to direct their thoughts and give the greater part of their attention.
To scold and yell at a child is to remind them of their faults and ends up demeaning them. His good qualities are thereby made weaker while his bad qualities are made worse.
It's not possible to improve the mind and the character by telling him constantly not to do "this" or "that." As a rule, it will generally increase his desire to those things you tell him or her they shouldn't. Isn't that what usually happens?
When children are warned, they either enter a state of fear or one of curiosity. And, while in those states, their minds are so deeply and so easily impressed by that which is being warned against, that their whole attention is upon it. The result is that they think so much about it that they get almost completely absorbed in it; carried away, so to speak, not way from the danger, but right into it.
More on this next time...God bless the children.
Love & joy,
Donna
Thought for the day:
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." --Charles Dickens
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