ry satisfactory manner. He will give you his viewpoint and you
will be able to adjust the matter in a spirit of conference which will
be satisfactory to both parent and child, without doing the least
violence to the responsibility of the one or the individuality of the
other.

Very little is to be accomplished, when the child starts to indulge in
an emotional runaway, if the parent contracts the same spirit, begins
to talk fast and loud, to gesticulate wildly, grabs the child, begins
to slap and shake it--that is merely an exhibition on the part of the
parent of the very same weakness he is trying to correct in his
offspring. I am afraid it is entirely too true that for every time you
shake one demon out of a child in anger, you shake in seven worse
devils. When all other methods fail and you must resort to punishment,
do it with kindness, deliberation, and dignity. Never punish a child
in haste and anger.

THE FINAL REWARD

The advice offered in this chapter is not mere theory. It has been
successfully used by many parents in the management of their nervous
children, and while all principles of child culture must be carefully
wrought out and made applicable to the particular child in question,
nevertheless, the methods of repeated and firm discipline herein set
forth will enable you to take many a child who has been born into this
world almost neurologically bankrupt, and, by this training and
discipline, enable him in adult life to draw such dividends of
self-control and self-mastery as will far exceed the outward results
obtained in the case of many children who are born with sound nervous
systems, but who were early spoiled and allowed to grow up without
that discipline which is so essential to later self-control and
dignity of character.

CHAPTER XXXI

NERVOUS DISEASES

In this chapter we shall consider a number of the more common diseases
which are associated with the nervous system of the child. Some of
these so-called nervous diseases are hereditary or congenital, while
others are the result of infection and environment.

SLEEPLESSNESS--INSOMNIA

There are many conditions which cause sleeplessness or insomnia in a
child aside from disturbance of the mental state or nervous system.
For instance, late romping, too hearty and too late a dinner, lack of
outdoor life during the day, illy ventilated sleeping rooms, too much
bedding, too little bedding which causes cold extremities, too much
sle