2. What influences are at work in each instance?
3. Is it because conditions outside the home offer more, or is the home offering less of that which the boy or girl desires?
4. When you find your boy going to the pool room do you throw his deck of cards into the fire and advise him as to what will happen if he attempts to use such things in or about the house?
5. When your girl shows a preference for taking her leisure at Smith's or Brown's rather than at home, do you at once adopt a code of rules and proceed to make emphatic statements as to your intention to enforce those rules and also to impose certain penalties?
6. Did it ever occur to you that "desire" may be diverted, but that it cannot be destroyed?
7. Is it not best to divert by substitution rather than by prohibition? Also to substitute in kind as near as may be?
8. What are you doing in your home to satisfy the desire which takes your boy or girl to the neighbors or the public places?
9. What share are you taking in the interests of the growing boy or girl?
10. Parents, are you companionable? Do you get into the boy or girl's field of discussion? Do you talk with them rather than to them? Do you get into their games, their troubles, their pleasures, their life?