Article November 30, 1957 Issue

A RIGHT APPROACH TO DISCIPLINE

PAULINE TAVENER

A Truly happy child is one who is well disciplined. The more earnestly parents and teachers heed the counsel in the Bible on this subject, the more harmony will there be in the home and schoolroom. For instance, in Proverbs we read (23:13), "Withhold not correction from the child." Surely there could be no better authority for discipline than the Bible.

Mary Baker Eddy also gives valuable instruction regarding the training of children. She says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 51), "If you make clear to the child's thought the right motives for action, and cause him to love them, they will lead him aright."

When one is confronted with a refractory child, he will find that such behaviour is but a challenge to his understanding of the truth. It is but an opportunity to relinquish the material sense of creation for the spiritual sense, which reveals God and His offspring as dwelling together in perfect harmony, enjoying the law and order enforced by Principle.

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