Your boy and his training

by Edwin Seward Puller

Get the juvenile viewpoint.

Insight and patience are the corner stones of boy-training.

Every father can become a hero to his son through chumship.

Through play the boy attains a large part of his growth—physical, mental, and moral.

Fix the habit of obedience early.

Every boy is a gangster at heart. Encourage him to join a good gang instead of a bad one.

Never punish him in anger. He has a keen sense of justice. Let the punishment fit the “crime.”

The mother’s influence on the child is most potent before puberty—the father’s after puberty.

Adolescence is the period of storm and stress in which incongruities of conduct and character are certain to appear. With your patient helpfulness he will outgrow them.

Train by positive, helpful suggestion, rather than negative repression. Never prohibit an act without suggesting a substitute to fill the void. Give him your reasons for the change.