Upholding the children as against the public school teacher.
Dr. Vincent: We are in a regular fault-finding mood to-night. Keep at it; it is wholesome.
Mother or father allowing the child to speak disrespectfully of the other parent, without reproof.
Too much frying-pan. [Amen, and laughter.]
Want of harmony between the father and mother in the government of the children; so that the child appeals from the decision of the one to the other.
Preventing young children from attending temperance meetings on the Lord’s day.
Dr. Vincent: Well, there are certain types of temperance meeting that I would not allow my child to attend on the Lord’s day. Some temperance meetings are conducted in so irreverent a way that I would not blame parents who are careful where they send their children on the Lord’s day, if they do prevent them from attending such meetings. Nevertheless, it is a great mistake not to commit our children to total abstinence.
Not knowing where the children are after dark.
Not knowing the needs of the children, and the neglect to provide for them in the matter of literature, taste, associations, and all that.
Parents deceiving their children. They begin this very early; sometimes telling the children horrible stories about horrible things, if the child goes “out of that door;” and the child finds that his mother told a downright lie, though she punished him the other day for telling a lie.