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suits in the reins of domestic authority being placed in
the hands of the child. Along with the abdication of the
parents comes much sentimentality that stragglers
on the outskirts of the psychological regiments employ.
Much of psychology is empericism. Its devotees observe
and deduce. In the meantime, the youngster is king.
Tais is as far from wisdom as was the former despotism
of parent over child.
The natural expansion of the child-mind rarely necessitates
compulsion and rarely requires abandonment.
If it is wrong to override the child's trend it is also injustice
to let him reach a state where only his desires are
to be considered. If the child's intelligence was in a
state of maturity that the parents' is supposed to be, it
would be just to arbitrate differences of opinion; if the
child has judgment beyond the parent it is right to let
it rule in the home. Otherwise, children should be subject
to the guiding intelligence of the parent-mind. Unless
the parent-mind does direct events the household
will be placed in subjection to the child's will, and while
this lasts there will be neither harmony nor righteousness
in the home.
The responsibility of parents does not go beyond
their most consecrated effort. The individual is responsible
to God for the discharge of the obligations he
has entered. If the new life came into this world with
the ability to judge that should characterize experience
it would not come in the form of a babe, but would be
given manifestation through direct, mature embodiment.
Intelligence develops with the body, develops much more
satisfactorily where there is a conscientious effort to
train in order and unselfishness. The natural order of
the household places parents at the head, but this sometimes
requires great strengthening of the will, bringing
the parent as well as the child under mental discipline.
Anything less than this is an inversion of nature and
children are often led to invite chastisement of the spirit-
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