RULES FOR HOME EDUCATION

1. From your children’s earliest infancy inculcate the necessity of instant obedience.

2. Unite firmness with gentleness. Let your children always understand that you mean exactly what you say.

3. Never promise them anything unless you are sure that you can give them what you promise.

4. If you tell a child to do anything, show him how to do it, and see that it is done.

5. Always punish your children for willfully disobeying you, but never punish when you are angry.

6. Never let them perceive that they can vex you or make you lose your sell-command.

7. Never smile at any of their actions of which you do not approve, even though they are somewhat amusing.

8. If they give way to petulance and temper, wait till they are calm, and then gently reason with them on the impropriety of their conduct.

9. Remember that a little present punishment, when the occasion arises, is much more effectual than the threatening of a greater punishment should the fault be renewed.

10. Never give your children anything because they cry for it.

11. On no account allow them to do at one time what you have forbidden under the same circumstances, at another.

12. Teach them that the only sure and easy way to appear good is to be good.

13. Accustom them to make their little recitals the perfect truth.

14. Never allow of talebearing.

15. Teach them that self-denial, not self-indulgence, is the appoint ed and sure method of securing happiness.

16. Above all things instruct them from the Word of God, taking Jesus for their example in patience, meekness, and love; teaching them to pray morning and evening, and during the day once or oftener, as they grow up, as the only preservative against error, weakness, and sin.