CHAPTER XVI - DISCIPLINE
A Consideration for Parents
1. What do people commonly mean by discipline?
2. Distinguish between a method and a system.
3. What is to be said for a ‘wise passiveness’?
4. Discuss the question of punishment by consequences.
5. Show that children may rather enjoy punishment.
6. Show that wrongdoing is necessarily followed by penalties.
7. Is punishment reformative?
8. What are the best disciplinarians?
9. Comment on the mother who is ‘always telling’ her children to do so and so.
10. Give nine practical counsels for a parent who wishes to deal seriously with a bad habit.
11. How would you treat an inquisitive child, for instance?