Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — Unnecessary Irritation. [ARTICLE]

Unnecessary Irritation.

This should be most carefully guarded against with children. These little creatures are tender and delicate and finale; they are deeply sensitive to a thousand and one matters of which a grown-up person would take no notice. Their comprehension is so limited that they forget that things whioh are so plain to us are great problems to them, and, in our impatience, we frequently show the greatest injustice. This injustice the child keenly feels, yet cannot reason about—it only knows, in a dumb kind of way, that it is not so wrong as it is said to be, and a sullenness and obstinacy of disposition are frequently produced or fostered in this way.