High-ranking civil authorities are frankly worried. In a message on the State of the Union, a former President said:

"To help the States do a better job, we must strengthen their resources for preventing and dealing with juvenile delinquency. Is hall propose Federal legislation to assist the States in dealing with this nationwide problem."

Many high officials in this nation’s law enforcement agencies have been astounded at the lack of concern by the public over what they consider one of the greatest menaces to the future security of our nation. Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, having presided over Brooklyn’s Kings County Court for more than fifteen years, in speaking out against the insistence of many that child crime is merely "childish pranks," answers:

"Horrible crimes - mere youngsters are now holdup men, armed with loaded guns, iron knuckles, switchblade knives, daggers; crimes such as muggings, rapes, home burglaries, felonious assaults, arson, dope peddling. I had a safecracker before me the other day who was barely eighteen years of age."

Stop and think! A change has taken place. Adults who used to smile at children plucking grapes from the neighbor’s vines, who were mildly used at accounts of watermelon-patch escapades are now faced with a generation of teenage criminals - committing gruesome atrocities of all descriptions!

The actual facts published by the FBI show an astounding increase in juvenile delinquency over the past years.

Mr. Hoover said:

"The nation can expect an appalling increase in the number of crimes that will be committed by teenagers in the years ahead unless the crime rate among juveniles can be lowered.

"Even the present number of juveniles, committing crime at the present rate, in the next 33 years - [and this was starting in 1953] - will commit 7.4 million automobile thefts, 15.8 million burglaries, 2 million robberies, 3 million aggravated assaults and 200,000 murders."

Read over those figures again- and - THINK! That means unless something is done - 200,000 people within the next generation are destined to lose their lives in horrifying violence and torture at the hands of teenagers!

"According to J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ... Between 1955 and 1960, arrests of young people 17 and under increased about twice as fast as did out total population in the 10-to-17 age group." (Weekly News Review May 14, 1962.)

"On the basis of reports received by the FBI from 1,586 American cities covering all types of arrests, we know that ... The arrests of juveniles under the age of eighteen increased 8.1 per cent over the previous year.

"Why?" asked many citizens, "can’t the law put a stop to it?" The answer, coming from officials in law enforcement agencies, is surprising, even shocking.

Weak laws, with no force behind them, cannot be expected to change a basic lack in a disobedient child! Judge Samuel Leibowitz remarked, "... The whole thing is treated too casually ... These youngsters being turned loose time after time with hardly a slap on the wrist. Naturally, they can have nothing but contempt for a law and a system which has a backbone- no conviction of any sort - in it."

Because parents have been following the precepts of "child psychology" and "progressive education" based on the pragmatism of William James, they do not want children punished. And laws governing our school systems, forbid the physical punishing of a child in many states, giving the children a feeling of protection in their unco-operative attitudes. Teachers report that situations depicted by articles and by the movie called "Blackboard Jungle" are not rare isolated occurrences which seldom affect the school, but are the RULE IN MOST BIG CITY SCHOOLS TODAY!

In some of the schools, it is not safe for teachers to walk the hallways, except in pairs, for their own physical protection! Reported a high school teacher in San Diego, California, "I have heard several boys say in class that their one ambition is to "kill a cop,’ I have seen switch-blade knives in my room and have sent boys to the principal’s office with them." Juvenile authorities repeatedly tell of the attitudes of juveniles who, when brought into court, show utter contempt for constituted authority. Modern juvenile courts are often conducted in the utmost informality, with the court attendants prohibited from wearing uniforms, and the judge sitting behind the desk much the same as the clerk.

The thought behind this childish and ridiculous procedure is that the law enforcement agencies must avoid, at all costs, giving the youthful criminals any sense of "guilt" over their actions, and must avoid the possibility of giving them a "complex."

Remember, the law enters the picture only after the juvenile has been actually involved in some crime and apprehended - and since the methods of dealing with offenders are informal, slow, and lack teeth, the juveniles of today grow bolder in their disrespect for law, and are encouraged in their flouting of all the constituted authority of society.

What is a delinquent? Stop and think! A juvenile is only counted as a "delinquent" when he has actually run afoul of the law. These represent only a small portion of today’s youth - but the actual and potential uncounted delinquents who have not yet run afoul of the law are an overwhelmingly larger portion. The greatest portion of all is the broad majority of our youth who disrespect authority, disobey their parents, defy their teachers and "get away" with many lawless acts, even though they are not detected or are not apprehended.

For every 10 known and counted delinquents there are 100,000 other children, who, while not necessarily becoming involved with law enforcement agencies, are not the decent, respectful, humble and obedient children their parents would like them to be.

JUST as it was in the Rome of old, the real enemy threatening our society is decadence WITHIN! We are rapidly becoming a nation of criminals, and we don’t realize it. We can’t build prisons fast enough! Each year sees a consecutive increase in major crimes committed in the Unites States. And, most frightening of all, is the dangerous trend among our youth. Three times as many criminals as college students exist in the United States. And, crime has grown greater proportionately than our population.

A Boston educator, Dr. Kvaraceus, said he was, "Not optimistic about this country’s chances of solving the problems of juvenile delinquency. The rate of increase in juvenile delinquency," he said, "is about three to four per cent higher than the rate of population increase in the seven to seventeen age bracket."

It stands absolutely proved the rise in crime cannot be attributed to mere rise in population!

And the rapid increase in crime, the decay from within was one of the five major reasons why the great Roman Empire fell. And your Bible foretold the collapse of this once great empire, hundreds of years before it happened!

The Apostle Paul, looking on beyond his day into the present twentieth century, wrote:

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, unthankful, unholy .... lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a FORM of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away!" (II Tim. 3:1-5).

The pagan philosophers of Rome "did not like to retain God in their knowledge," but, rather, professing themselves to be wise, recorded the wanderings of their darkened minds through the labyrinths of ethereal hypotheses which have since been praised by a gullible world as "wisdom." However, God says of them:

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are no convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whispers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS ..." (Rom. 1:28-32).

God places the breaking of the fifth commandment - "Honor thy father and thy mother" - on the same par with any of the other commandments! Your Bible says disobedience to parents is punishable by death, the same penalty as for murder! Notice it! "...disobedient to parents ... they which commit such things are worthy of death ..."

Isaiah prophesied, by the Holy Spirit of God, that our society would be literally turned upside down.

"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths" (Isa. 3:12). Notice it again!

But what are the real CAUSES behind youthful rebellion? Why are little children growing up today disrespectful of their parents, disobedient, haughty, and, in some cases, headed toward a life of crime? There have been myriads of reasons given, and voluminous material has been written about juvenile delinquency. However, has there been any real solution? Has the problem been solved?

No-rather than a lessening of the problem, it grows steadily WORSE!

But what really CAUSES this frightening rise in crime? What is the real reason?

Is there a conspiracy to keep from your understanding the real causes for teen age crime? Is there a reason why your children are not as obedient as you would want them be?

Yes, there is a reason! There are many sickening, deplorable reasons. They are the pressures of a society gone berserk, which was prophesied to become "lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God!"

Our endtime society is bent on self-satisfaction! The Apostle Paul said men would be "lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." Nothing seems to characterize our present society more than the thrill-seeking, pleasure-mad binge of a fat, indolent nation bloating on its own prosperity, and seemingly "too busy" in its mad race for pleasure to be concerned about the children it engenders.

An undisciplined home, disagreeing parents bent on their own self-satisfaction, upside-down homes where mother wears the pants, broken homes - none of these can be expected to produce obedient, happy children.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, charged that delinquent parents are largely to blame for the "growing menace of youth crime," in a caustically-worded editorial in the F.B.I’s law enforcement bulletin. Hoover noted that the public only things of criminals who lead youngsters into thievery and immoral activities as "corrupters of youth."

"In truth," said the bachelor F.B.I boss, "large segments of the adult population are also among the guilty."

This direct statement by the leading law enforcement officer of our nation, the head of one of the most effective and respected police organizations on the face of this earth, places the blame squarely on "large segments" of the adult population!

In this statement quoted here from the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Wyoming State Tribune for March 11, 1959, Mr. Hoover went on:

"Countless adults escape the stigma, although by their negligence, indifference, personal greed and bad example they are in fact responsible in large measure for juvenile criminality."

It has often been said the very foundation of any society is its basic institution, the family. No nation can survive unless its family life is healthy, happy and morally stable. Godfrey Sperling, Jr., Staff Correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor mentioned in February, 1957:

"Since 1944 ... divorces granted in the United States have averaged more than 400,000 annually - by far the highest divorce rate in the world.

"Our proportion of divorces to marriages is six times that of Canada and three and one-half times that of France.

...In 1953, 31,980 marriage licenses were issued in Los Angeles County while 15,688 divorces were final."

Think of it - America leads the world in divorces! At the same time, America leads the world in child crime! There is a definite relationship between the two. Broken homes and divorce are not the ONLY cause of juvenile delinquency. But they are a major contributing factor! Mr. Sperling went on to say:

"Many of these children, emotionally disrupted by the deprivation of the influence and security of a normal home life, drift into mischief. Records of the juvenile courts, Cook County and the boy’s court. Chicago, indicate that approximately 80 per cent of their cases are traceable to broken homes, and are no exception to the rule."

Notice it! There is a direct relationship between America’s tremendous divorce rate and juvenile delinquency!

But what most fail to realize is that divorce is only the final climax of destruction to a family already in its death throes for quite a long time.

Think for a moment of these examples. Some of them have been characterized in both television and the movies, but all are well-known and very popular comic strip characters. Usually, the dolt playing the part of the husband foolishly appears in his shuffling, bumbling, ignorant role as the brunt of every joke. Incapable, or else undesirous of earning a living, he may either be an unshaven, uncouth "hen-pecked" type, such as "William" in "Moon Mullins" strip, or he may be the young, struggling, incapable, inefficient and frightfully stupid "white-collar worker" such as the "Horace" in "Dottie," or the "Dagwood" in the "Blondie" strip. Nearly always, the poor brute of a husband is scolded by his wife, impugned by his children, shouted at by his boss, and ridiculed by his mother-in-law. This common "American husband" has become the source of tongue-in-cheek amusement from the growing children of today. They see his position as titular, but not the actual, head of the household, dismissed because of his utter unworthiness, and gleefully read the accounts of how his own children "put it over on Dad" and make him appear to be a fool.

On the other hand, the women of the family is nearly always pictured as the crisp, efficient, business-like manager of the household affairs, who studiously maintains a martyred expression of pain over the antics of her incapable spouse. She silences him with a word, sends him off to work with a pat, awakens him from the couch so she can sweep under him, or drags him home by the ear as he strays into the neighborhood bar for a poker game. She busily settles every problem, manages the finances, and quiets the protesting and somewhat effeminate voice of "hubby" with a sharp look.

These common-place situations are enacted before the amazingly naive American eyes through many different media of entertainment - and are the real state of affairs IN MULTIPLIED THOUSANDS OF HOMES TODAY!

The United States Senate, deeply concerned over the rise in juvenile delinquency and its causes, heard Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz contend that America’s family life "has gone to pot." Judge Leibowitz told the committee that the children in Soviet Russia regard it as an honor to go to school and quoted authorities as saying many students in our country can hardly read or write. He pointed out that family life in America has changed greatly in the past 25 to 30 years. Such incidents as a pupil assaulting a teacher just didn’t happen a quarter of a century ago, he contended.

"We’ve been drifting away from God, from family life ... There has been a deterioration in the moral climate of our country. We countenance a philosophy of permissiveness. It is shocking ... while we have the highest standard of living we at the same time have the highest crime and juvenile delinquency rate, and one marriage of three ends on the rocks - in the divorce courts." (Clipping, United Press Release.)

Think of it! Americans chuckle over breakfast toast and coffee at the "humor" of comic strip families, and imitate in their own homes the situations that their Creator calls an ABOMINATION!

God says we have forgotten His laws. It will come as a shock to most to even realize there are definite LAWS which regulate marriage!

Americans, Britons and the people of all nations have broken God’s laws regarding family life (Rom. 3:23). God says of us, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge. I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the LAW of thy God, I will also forget thy children" (Hos. 4:6).

GOD is the One Who instituted marriage in the first place. He is the One Who gave laws to regulate that union, so man and woman could live together in real, deep-down happiness and joy! God is the Creator. God "created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen. 1:27). At creation, Almighty God saw it was not good for a man to be alone, but created a woman as a wife for him! God "blessed them," and God said unto them. "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it" (Gen. 1:28). God said, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Gen. 2:24).

Since God invented marriage, it is Almighty God who ought to know how marriages should work, is it not? God set down certain laws and rules which regulate marital happiness. Man does not want to live God’s way. Rather, God shows us that "the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Rom. 8:7). Our normal, natural minds are hostile toward God and His laws! The chances are, you are going to be by nature quite hostile toward many of God’s laws as they are revealed to you. That, is, if you have a carnal mind.

For some reason, God’s laws seem to be bad to most. We would rather hold to the way of human tradition, to go the way that seems to be so right to us - to live way of modern society and the others around us, than to go God’s way, and live according to the laws He has set in motion. God knew this would happen - and said, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov. 14:12; 16:25). Our way seems to be right to us- it’s the way we want to go, the way of society, the way of self. But Almighty God says that way is going to lead to death!

Human beings have been trying to govern themselves for nearly 6,000 years without interference from their Creator - following that which seems to be RIGHT to them! All of our present-day turmoil, crime, and marital unhappiness come from the natural mistakes of mankind trying to live in the way which seems so good to him.

What we see around us, then, is the net results of man’s natural-minded ways of living!

In the first marriage God ever instituted, an over-all pattern began to form which has led mankind on an ever-increasing landslide toward his present-day dilemma. Notice, when God put Adam and Eve on this earth, He revealed to them the basic laws of marriage: "And they desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee," God had said to Eve (Gen. 3:16). The Creator had said, in His wisdom, that it was "not good that the man should be alone" and so declared He would "make him an help meet [fitting] for him" (Gen. 2:18).

God then set a way before Adam and Eve. They, like you, were free moral agents. God showed them the way to life, the way of happiness, and of abundance - but they chose the wrong way!

Here was the IDEAL marriage! They had everything "going" for them! Think how ideally suited they must have been for each other. No in-law problems, no troubles from past environment, different religious convictions, physical handicaps, mental disturbances. They were both in PERFECT physical health - the world’s most PERFECT physical specimens. Adam must have been the very epitome of masculinity, and Eve the apex of feminine beauty!

Adam had UNLIMITED job opportunities - was personally close to his Employer, had no debts, no fears of anyone getting his job. He had in short, tremendous security!

The two of them had what represents the world’s BEST START TOWARD A PERFECTLY SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE!

And yet, in just a short while, Adam LOST his job, was expelled from his home! From being in absolute authority over is entire surroundings, being in an executive position, he was lowered to the rank of a failing, hard-scrabble dirt framer. The weather became his enemy - the very soil produced only weeds and thistles! EVERYTHING began going WRONG!

His marriage failed. He and his wife reared the world’s first juvenile delinquents!

They had to live to see their own beloved son MURDERED by his own brother!

WHY?

Because Adam and Eve broke the inexorable LAWS governing happy marriage. They broke at least FOUR of the great Ten Commandments directly, and all of them, indirectly! (Jas. 2:10-11). Adam began to relinquish his God-given position as HEAD OF THE HOME, allowing his WIFE to make the MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE DECISION OF THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!

Eve began to "wear the pants!"

"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast breakened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground of thy sake" (Gen. 3:17).

Just as God has set offices in His Church for rulership and government (Eph. 4:11), so He has set offices in the home! Most people are totally ignorant of the God-appointed chain of authority that exists in the family, and hence, are unconsciously reaping the results of breaking those appointed laws!

God says, "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the HEAD of the church: and he is the saviour of the body" (Eph. 5:23). And yet - most American women want the word "obey" taken out of the wedding ceremony! Just as most modern theologians want the word "obey" taken out of the entire Bible! God says the wife is to be subject to the husband just AS the Church is subject to Christ. Because most professing Christian men do not really consider themselves directly SUBJECT to Christ, Who is their present, living RULER, their BOSS, they cannot command the respect of their wives or bring them to see God’s authority vested in the man in the HOME!

God says further, "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, AS UNTO THE LORD." How many wives are really WILLING to submit in God’s way to their husbands? Whether "modern" 20^th century women like to admit it or not, God Almighty MADE them to be subject to a man - and has decreed they CANNOT FIND HAPPINESS WITHOUT THAT SUBMISSION!

Paul, inspired of God’s Holy Spirit, wrote: "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God" (I Cor. 11:3). Paul further explained that "the man is not OF the woman; but the woman OF the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman FOR THE MAN!"(I Cor. 11:8-9).

God’s example of holy women, who really knew the key to happiness, show this same truth. Peter writes, "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation (conduct) of the wives" (I Pet. 3:1). God describes the WAY these women lived, by showing the example of Sarah, who was Abraham’s wife. "For after this manner (according to His divinely revealed ways) in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well" (I Pet. 3:5-6).

Any such glowing example of godly humility has become outdated and "old-fashioned" today. In other words - happiness for women has become outdated and "old-fashioned"!

The actual percentage of women who are working has doubled in 65 years, and now stands at over 22 million. Women now comprise almost one-third of the total employees in the United States! Further, one-half of all employed women are married!

There are four million U.S. women employed in factories, 835,000 women teachers in U.S. school systems, and fully two-thirds of all clerical workers are women.

Sixty-five per cent of U.S. women belong to at least one of the countless women’s organizations dedicated to community service. These statistics were quoted in the December, 1956, issue of Life magazine.

The U.S. Children’s Bureau disclosed recently the shocking facts about children left to their own devices while their mothers work. The staggering number of nearly 400,000 children under twelve are left alone by working mothers. Of this number, approximately 138,000 of them are less than 10, said Mrs. Katherine B. Oettinger, chief of the bureau.

The issue of Life magazine went on to describe the changing roles in modern marriages. Increasingly, the sexes in this country are losing their identities. Mothers are becoming more masculine, and fathers are becoming more feminine!

And consider this:

" ‘In many American marriages people seem to be content if they are not too miserable’ says Dr. Arthur Mandy, Baltimore psychiatrist. ‘One basic reason for unhappy marriage is that women are becoming too aggressive, too competitive with men,’ he declares.

"‘The result is millions of women are frigid, and perhaps as many men impotent,’ he writes in the publication State of Mind.

"...’Frigidity as we see it today is an outgrowth of woman’s running away from her biological destiny, which is to be a wife, mother and homemaker,’ Dr. Mandy writes.

"‘It reflects her refusal to take the role of passive home-maker. Instead, she is seeking gratification elsewhere by competing with men.’

"Dr. Mandy says this is the final result of the ‘so-called feminine emancipation movement’ when women decided their place no longer was in the home.

"‘They first asked the right to vote,’ he said, ‘then to attend universities, to enter politics, to compete with men in jobs, including being scientists, pilots, soldiers. They found they could be financially independent.’

"But few women can succeed in both holding a job and being wife and mother because ‘this is not the destiny of women’ and because the job of caring for home and children takes 24 hours a day." (Peoria Journal Star, Sunday March 23,1958.)

Life went on to describe how women are becoming more and more aggressive, and men nor defensive. With fathers without any backbone or masculine leadership, is it any wonder the younger generations would rather imitate hoodlums, gangsters, and reform school "toughs"? It is evident, then, that the picture of upside-down homes presented by American cartoonists, novelists, and motion picture producers is only a manifestation of what is actually occurring in our family life.

Americans particularly, and other nations to a lesser degree, LAUGH at this atrocious abomination that blights God’s chosen people! The "battle" of the sexes is just another humorous name for the same struggle Eve started in the Garden of Eden, of trying to rule over the man. It has brought only unhappiness and misery, wretched, twisted and broken homes, and a race for spineless males, who are too often ruled over by their wives, and ridiculed by their own children!

Remember Isaiah’s frighteningly accurate prophecy, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them" (Isa. 3:12).

Does God, then, intend that women’s necks be under a domineering yoke of bondage of just any kind of husband, regardless of his actions?

Not at all!

GOD HOLDS THE MAN - WHOM HE ORIGINALLY PLACED IN AUTHORITY ACCOUNTABLE, RESPONSIBLE!

Just as Jesus Christ is responsible for the well-being of the Church, He intends that the husband be the responsible head of his family! "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word" (Eph. 5:25-26). Christ gave Himself for the Church. Husbands are to love their wives in the same manner! "So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself" (Verse 28).

Some men are not capable of assuming their God-given responsibility as head of the house! Because of lack of training from their own parents, and because society has gotten away from the way of God, men often do not, or cannot shoulder their responsibility.

Any husband who is a drunkard, or a man who will not support his wife, or who refuses to accept the position God has demanded he accept, has actually disqualified himself. Yet - that is between the man and God! It is NOT the place of the woman to bitterly indict the man for his sins, and then to assume HIS responsibility of being the breadwinner, the provider and protector of the home!

Many a woman has decided it is her OBLIGATION to step into the "pants" of the family, and become its HEAD because her husband either is not capable, or else refuses to accept that responsibility! Such is not the case! She can act as a humble partner, encouraging her husband to take over the reins of the home - but should never assume his responsibility! Some women are only too anxious to find some weakness in their husbands, or some reluctance lead and govern the home. Finding such weakness, some will immediately usurp the office of the husband, taking the lead. The sad truth is many husbands don’t seem to care. The moment their wives begin to take up slack in the reins due to the husbands’ poor leadership - they meekly slide over - encouraging their wives to take the driver’s seat.

Why are most men becoming more feminine, failing in their duties as fathers and husbands? Because they, too, have gotten out of their own element - into an unnatural element - trying to be a wife and a mother instead of the head of the home and a father! God says the man is to RULE his own house well! "One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)" (I Tim. 3:4-5).

God Almighty does not hold woman as RESPONSIBLE for the abominable situation existing today as He does man! Since the man is to be the HEAD of the family - god holds the responsible one to blame for the breaking of that principle!

It is not at all unusual for men to be doing such household chores as sweeping, dusting, washing dishes, cooking and preparing meals, and a myriad of other wifely chores which rightfully belong to the woman! OF COURSE, it is not wrong for the man to help out his wife if she becomes ill, or in a temporary circumstance! However, in anything other than an emergency, those tasks are women’s tasks, and should be done by women!

What about YOUR home? Is it like many "modern" homes today?

It is not uncommon for men to do the shopping, to care for the children, or get the meals, while the wife is staying out late in the afternoon with her job, or perhaps taking part in one of the many thousands of women’s civic organizations designed to make this world a "better" place to live! A lot of men are quivering, quaking spineless JELLYFISH instead of men, and its about time some of them WAKE UP AND REALIZE IT! Perhaps you have known of similar situations - or perchance you are LIVING in a similar situation!

What about it?

Perhaps now you are beginning to realize why there is so much unhappiness, emotional turbulence and ultimate DIVORCE in the common American home.

Perhaps now you are beginning to realize why so many parents seem to be unable to control their children, to receive from them to love and respect, and obedience which they so earnestly desire.

God intends that the husband and wife be partners; working together toward the only worthwhile goal in life - the Kingdom of God! Most people do not have that as a goal - but they could still be much happiness and they could have respectful, obedient children, if they observed God’s divinely ordained LAWS of marriage!

Marriage, it is said by most modern people, is a 50-50 proposition. That means each mate is to ideally "meet the other half-way" in his natural-minded selfishness. However, as is most usually the case, there develops an unclear idea as to where that "middle line’ actually is, and neither mate seems to be able to convince the other he or she is not meeting his or her side of the responsibility!

Endless arguments develop over the other doing HIS SHARE fully!

Let’s understand - marriage is not a 50-50 proposition!

Almighty God, Who designed, planned and originated marriage, meant it to be a 100 per cent proposition! That means each partner will be willing to give all the way to the wife! That does not mean give up responsibility, or give up the position in which God has placed each partner! Rather, it means to do YOUR DUTY - all the way! It means to be 100 per cent RESPONSIBLE

1 if you are doing this, you will be giving 100 per cent in service, in love, in understanding to your mate! That kind of love and respect allows for a lot of "overlap"! There can be no question as to where the "middle line" of responsibility is in a marriage such as this.

Mankind has jerked love from its original place of perfect giving, and pointed it toward SELF, making it mean, in our modern language, a "getting" and a receiving instead of a giving! Love, as advertised in our movies, novels and comics, is all GET - pointed toward making the SELF happier!

BUT- if a husband and wife are REALLY in love, according to God’s definition of love (Who CREATED love!), they will be willing to each GIVE to the other!

If that were true, countless marriages that are threatening to break up and end in divorce at this very minute could be saved. But a total lack of consideration seems to be the rule - with the woman trying to be a man, and the man trying to play the docile role of a homemaker!

And God has said it is the man’s responsibility. It is a crime for husband to shirk their responsibility, neglecting their families, refusing to support them, or to be their physical and spiritual leader.

Whether modern women realize it or not, it is a heinous CRIME against their husbands, and against their CREATOR for them to leave the home to WORK and support the family!

"That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. To be discreet, chaste, KEEPERS AT HOME" - or, as some translations render it, "HOMEMAKERS" - "good, OBEDIENT TO THEIR OWN HUSBANDS, THAT THE WORD OF GOD BE NOT BLASPHEMED!" (Tit. 2:4-5).

There!

Did you notice it? Read it again! It is blasphemy against the sacred, inspired Word of God, which Word is going to JUDGE us in the judgment, for a woman to forsake her God-appointed office of being the KEEPER OF THE HOME! That is the thundering command of your Creator!

Possibly it will be difficult for you to realize that a tremendous key these principles of God’s Word place in your hands. Any parents who will learn these lessons, who will repent of their errors and mistakes in going contrary to God’s Government in the home - yes, any parents who will OBEY the Government of God, who will begin to set their home aright, and who will conduct their homes according to the divinely revealed and clearly stated laws of God - will start on the road toward having obedient children!

Regardless of how hard some parents may try to control their children - of the long hours of study they may spend in learning to properly teach and train them, if these principles of God are not followed in the home, all the rest will have been useless.

Just as there is resentment toward authority in the home, resentment toward authority on the part of young children, so there is great resentment toward any authority in religion! Notice what our professing Christian society is like today:

"There shall be false teachers among you ... and many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. But chiefly them that ... DESPISE GOVERNMENT. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities!" (II Pet. 2:1-2, 10).

They keynote of our times is that dignities are stultified, their offices impugned. Children don’t respect their parents. Parents don’t respect each other. Vast segments of society don’t respect the LAW - but want to repeal, annual, emasculate and tear down every last vestige of authoritative law enforcement!

It is this basic, underlying CONCEPT of hostility toward AUTHORITY, of belief that corporal punishment is WRONG that seems to pervade every nook and cranny of our diseased and decaying civilization.

With the ushering in of "progressive education," closely following the pragmatism of William James, a new school of "Thinkers" arose who promptly jumped the tracks of sanity, and have since remained derailed with their false theories. Since these prevailing false concepts are at the very root and core of much of today’s confusion over child rearing, let us analyze a few of the more outstanding.

"Any kind of punishment either by means of words or force, or even mild reprimands on the subject, is extremely unwise," advises one foremost source, assuring gullible young parents they should never punish their children. "The chief danger of punishment is that it makes the child feel guilty - that he is bad, naughty. The child is likely to have a stronger feeling of guilt about his activity than about the other things he does. His ideas are vague and confused and his imagination vivid. He may build up pictures of the terrible things that will happen to him because of his naughtiness, thus sowing the seed of more fears and more anxieties, and increasing his emotional difficulties" (p. 391, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

Notice that great stress is laid upon the supposition that punishment will make the child feel GUILTY - that he is "BAD" - naughty!

This "feeling," assure the child-psychologists, is extremely harmful, and will surely lead to many and terrible consequences!

Thus they denounce GOD ALMIGHTY, who gives them every breath of air they breathe! The Creator spends infinitely more space in His sacred word going into great detail about the frightful PUNISHMENTS to be inflicted in a God-rejecting, sin-filled world than He does in describing the rewards!

And - what is more important - God back up his word. HE DOES PUNISH!

But notice the insipid, ignorant depths to which this permissive society has sunk in its lawless doctrines of "do-as-you-please-ism."

"The ineffectiveness of corporal punishment has been repeatedly demonstrated. The punishing parent or teacher ‘frequently forgets that he loves his child; he forgets it because something in the child’s behavior has made him forget that the child loves him.’ Of the problem cases described by 100 teachers, not one was improved by whipping. School social workers frequently report that a child’s emotional difficulties are aggravated by beatings at home ... Many parents have said ‘The more I whip him the worse he gets.’" (P. 345, An Introduction to Child Study, Strang.)

Here, incomplete and partial information from "school social workers" is used to apparently "demonstrate" that corporal punishment is ineffective. Nothing is said of the method of punishment, the frequency with which it was done, whether it was consistent, or whether correct and thoughtful USE of punishment was being made. Rather, that punishment for the sake of punishment is supposedly wrong.

"The word punishment should not appear in our dictionaries except as an obsolete word, and I believe this should be just as true in the field of criminology as in that of child rearing. The parent’s object in rapping the child with a pencil is to get it to react in conformity with certain social usage’s - to behave itself. Why then should the parents ever be angry? Why should they ever punish in the old Biblical sense? Such things as beating and expiation of offenses, so common now in our schools and homes, in the church, in our criminal law, in our judicial procedure [published in 1928 - times have changed!], are relics of the Dark Ages."

Think of it!

This quotation, now seriously out-dated - has actually come true in part!

Recently, Attorney General Kennedy was lamenting the situations now spreading across the United States of criminals being exonerated from guilt by the courts after being caught red handed in committing a crime!

It is a proven FACT today that criminals, even after confessing freely to their guilt, have had such confessions "dismissed" as proper evidence by a conniving counsel for the defense - interested NOT in whether or not the man is really innocent or guilty, but merely in making a reputation for himself - because such confession was made before "arraignment."

The system of no punishment has taken hold!

The child psychologists have partially succeeded in their march against constituted authority! The RESULT is the appalling heart-wrenching, sickening stench of a mountain of crime, a cess-pool of sadism, a sewer of pornography and dope addiction, a gigantic, mounting rush toward complete anarchy!

But now, notice the incomplete, utterly ridiculous, UNWORKABLE ideas promoted by impractical theorists:

"The parent’s attitude should be positive, should be that of the instructor ... by surrounding the child constantly with objects that it has a right to work with. In this way ‘forbidden’ objects come gradually to lose their stimulating value; the children cease to play with fire [that is, if they are still alive and your home is still intact], with matches [same comment], they stop turning gas jets on and off [that is, if they are still alive and your home has not been blown to bits, together with a dozen others in the block], picking up sharp knives and forks [that is, if they have not been so seriously cut or have fallen on one of the sharp instruments and are now dead], pulling over glass vases and bottles. But where the positive method of training does not make them let these objects alone, then gentle pencil rapping is a safe and sane procedure" (pp. 63-65, Psychological Care of Infant and Child, Watson).

But wait!

Will this work?

Can you ACTUALLY WAIT for your own child to be "surrounded with objects it has a right to work with" so it will become interested in THEM, instead of running into a busy street pulling over heavy glass vases, turning on gas jets, playing with sharp knives? This would be SO LAUGHABLE, SO RIDICULOUS that it would be PAINFUL - if it weren’t so SERIOUSLY IN ERROR!

Of COURSE the child should be able to have constructive toys, and be surrounded with right objects. But this positive teaching CANNOT take the place of proper, loving, diligent PUNISHMENT to teach a child NOT to handle objects, or follow practices that will TAKE ITS LIFE!

Many child psychologists seem to have adopted the idea that parent-child relationships are as difficult and involved as international diplomacy. So many and varied are the suggestion on the tactful employment of modern psychology in the parents’ dealings with their children that one is thoroughly confused by the self-contradictions, the incomplete statements, and the unanswered questions in the dozens of volumes treating with the subject.

Another example of such contradictory partial information is:

"Punishment affects parent-child relations and teacher-child relations. A spanking which the child considers unrelated to the situation is likely to make him hostile to the person who administers it. It is better, whenever possible, to let the punishment fit the crime - to let the situation itself punish the child. Then the parent plays the friendly role. He give warnings. If the child persists in doing the thing, he will get hurt. The parent can by sympathetic, but reminds the child that he said it would hurt. The problem is much more difficult when the forbidden is rewarding, like running out into the street - an exciting excursion that many times may cause no harm, yet sometimes be fatal. But over a period of time the parent can build a relation based on rewarding experiences in which his advice was needed" (p. 221, An Introduction to Child Study, Strang).

Taken at face value, this advice "seems" to be relatively should. However, when looking more closely, so many are the errors and false concepts that this particular quotation must now be treated, and as a whole, will be enlarged upon further, a little later.

Re-read the first part of the last quotation.

It is sound. It makes sense. But notice again that even though it is admitted the problem is much more "difficult" when a child runs into the street - THIS eventually is not dealt with at all!

Why?

Because, having already committed himself to NO PUNISHMENT theories, this author wouldn’t know how to keep a child from running into the street without tying him in the yard, keeping him in a pen or else PUNISHMENT!

Even after admitting this "excursion" may sometimes (there is NO PLURALITY INVOLVED IN THIS WORD) be FATAL, he offers NO suggestion for coping with the problem! Can you believe your eyes? I must admit, even though I knew child psychologists did have various "ideas" about dealing with children with methods other than corporal punishment - I was SHOCKED at the emptiness of some of their theories which I encountered in extensive research!

Society cannot seem to reconcile itself to the fact that love and punishment could possibly come from the same source! It is somehow beyond the realm of conceivability to the average carnal mind that there could be any LOVE involved in PUNISHMENT! Punishment is such a "nasty" word, that some child psychologists (as they already quoted) have even advocated its deletion from our dictionaries! Today’s modern movements to rescind punishments, to abolish the death sentence for demented, brutal, sadistic murderers who themselves have inflicted torturous and horrifying death sentences on perhaps even DOZENS of helpless human beings, the desire of the average wife to have the word "obey" taken out of the marriage ceremony, and the vast, all-comprehensive movement of religionists to strip the pulpit of its power, rip laws and authority from the Bible, and throw discipline to the winds, may serve to illustrate the depths to which the roots of the antidiscipline weed have grown!

Notice again, from a very respected group of psychologists and child-behaviorists, how, because of certain abuses of right punishment - ALL punishment is assumed to be utterly wrong:

"Sometimes one sees a letter in a magazine or newspaper in which an individual or a group of parents recommends the indiscriminate use of corporal punishment with a cruelty and sadistic satisfaction that is frightening.

"Most parents, however, turn to this extreme as a last resort, and because they think that nothing else will work" (p. 365, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

The next quotation from the same authors serves graphically to illustrate the aforementioned principle of the basic inability to understand that love and punishment CAN come from the same source:

"It [corporal punishment] usually is the end step in a long course of happenings that has carried both parents and children away from positive feelings of love and understanding" (p. 365, 366, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

"The child’s failure to live up to what is expected of him, either by the school, or the family, or his parents, is a painful and bitter experience for the mother or father. They feel a deep sense of their own failure in their most important job. Angry and upset at themselves, as well as their children, they STRIKE OUT in the ONLY WAY THEY KNOW!" [Emphasis mine.]

This type of punishment is an ABUSE. It should never be done!

Frequently, sensational stories of thoughtless parental brutality have been emblazoned across the pages of America’s newspapers. "Father Beats Children to Death," "Mother Whips Six-Week-Old Baby," "Father Ties His Children in Woodshed - Leaves Them All Night!" and similar outrages have shocked and horrified the public. But - human beings are creatures of extremes! Like the constantly moving pendulum, they seem to swing from one opposite extreme to the other.

There have been certain terrible ABUSES of corporal punishment - misapplication and thoughtless use by parents who are punishing their children IN ANGER. There have been sensational stories of torments upon tiny tots by a few who are not proper disciplinarians and who are completely unequipped and ill-fitted to be parents. As a result of these extremes, the child psychologists and a whole field of "do gooders" have been convinced that ANY use of corporal punishment must, by its very nature, be WRONG!

Parents have been increasingly reluctant to punish their children because of the supposed "effects" which they have been told punishment engenders.

"Spanking seems the quick way of ‘getting results’ but these usually take the shape of temporary conformance, not of growth in self-direction and self-control. Autocratic control usually produces one of two personalities: An oversubmissive child who does what he is told but shows no initiative, or the rebellious child who is constantly waging war against authority" (pp. 221-222, An Introduction to Child Study, Strang).

This is an untrue assumption. The RIGHT use of spanking does not produce an "oversubmissive child" who acts as an automaton, but guides and controls initiative, inventiveness and self-reliance. This argument, true to form of all arguments by a carnal world, throws the Holy, Inspired Word of God out the window - fearless going directly contrary to the eternal wisdom of God!

Notice the next example. Seeing ONLY the MISUSE of punishment by distraught, INCAPABLE parents, the author remarks:

"Some mothers are always nagging and scolding their children, yank them when they cross the street or get into buses, and slap them whenever they do something the mother doesn’t like. These mothers may be tired and cross, but they do not understand that they make their children cross and irritable, too, and make things harder for themselves.

"If you let yourself go occasionally and slap or spank when you are excited or upset, it probably isn’t too serious, provided your child is left with the feeling that he has been punished only for something he has done, and that you love him anyway" (pp. 366-367, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

Here again, punishment is viewed as "letting oneself GO occasionally" or, in other words, losing one’s temper! It is viewed as if the adult human being, in anger, were "getting back" at the child - and inflicting physical torment upon the child merely because the child has "bothered" the parent!

Again, seeing this misapplication of discipline, the child psychologists, imagining a number of terrible "effects" of spanking have been responsible for deeply etching the fear of the "unknown" in the minds of many young parents - assuring them their lovely little children may turn into perfectly horrible monsters, become demented, or develop harmful "complexes" as a result of spanking!

"But if you find that you are punishing and slapping repeatedly, you may be sure you are on the wrong track.

"Spanking may stop your child for the moment, but you don’t know what else it may do [emphasis mine]. (the author of the book, not the webmaster)

‘It may make him angry and resentful, or humiliated and ashamed. Or he may become hardened and pay no attention to it; or just so afraid that he can’t trust himself to do anything.

"None of these feelings help him learn what it was that did wrong, or how to act the next time."

OF COURSE - "feelings" don’t help him learn the POSITIVE part! But notice how INCOMPLETE is this assumption! If amply warned first, and then punished in LOVE, accompanied by kind, patient POSITIVE TEACHING of the right as opposed to the wrong, this objection becomes worthless, as it later demonstrated.

"The best that can be said for spanking is that it sometimes clears the air. But it isn’t worth the price, and it usually doesn’t work!" [Emphasis mine] (p. 367, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

"Corporal punishment develops resentment and misunderstanding. It stresses what the child should not do rather than what the child should not do rather than what he should do. Produces fear, and makes him lose confidence in his parents. Intelligent parents rarely resort to corporal punishment ... An intelligent disciplinary method is the use of reasoning at the child’s level of understanding. The more clearly can the desirable conduct be formulated" (pp. 452-453, Growing Superior Children Kuglemass).

To some authors, the whole meaning of the term "punishment" seems to revolve around blind, unreasoning BEATINGS inflicted by callused and indifferent parents in a fit of frenzied anger.

"The typical result of the whipping in childhood is either the servile, timorous individual, who usually is at one and the same time cringy and crafty, or the arrogant and objectionably self-assured person. Almost everyone who was beaten in his childhood has a tendency toward brutality."

Notice the employment of the terms "whipping" and "beaten" as being the obvious reason for "brutality." This author continued:

"Yet the method of corporal punishment continues to be employed, although its uselessness, absurdity, and downright harmfulness should be apparent to everyone. This mystery finds its explanation in the fact that it is mostly the whipped children, who, as parents, advocate the theory that whippings are indispensable. They believe they are following their good sense when they deal out blows, whereas actually they are following only a strange inner urge. They want to give their child a vivid and drastic demonstration of their own superiority; they fear that otherwise they will be unable to subdue his resistance; and they do not realize that the use of brute force plainly betrays an essential weakness that has no other resource at its disposal. Nor do they admit to themselves how much cowardice is implicit in such a procedure" (pp. 138-139, The Challenge of Parenthood, Drekurs).

Here is further proof of the swinging of the pendulum. Many child psychologists observing parents lashing out in anger, as a result of their own frustrations and tensions, have witnessed thoughtless misuse

of corporal punishment - often with serious and long-lasting consequences. On the premise that punishment, by its very nature, must come from the source of ANGER, BITTERNESS, HATRED, RESENTMENT, FRUSTRATION, TENSION, they label corporal punishment as "anything but good" for the child, and a word which should be deleted from our dictionaries!

"CONGRATULATIONS!" say all the friends, relatives and greeting cards to the beaming parents! And what a tremendous moment it is - brining a newborn child into the world - introducing him around!

Countless thousands of little babies are carried into homes where exists the naive assumption that all the knowledge and understanding necessary for the care and training of children has come to exist automatically be virtue of the arrival of the infant.

There are many mechanics, engineers, artists or musicians today who are competent in their fields merely because they had the tools, machinery or instruments near them as a part of their environment. Many mechanics are grown-up boys who began "tinkering" with machines and automobiles - learning by trial and error - taking them apart and seeing how they were put together again.

This, sad to say, is the identical type of training course pursued by most parents in the art of child training. Simply because the baby is near at hand, and is now a wanted or unwanted inheritance of the family, parents blithely assume the child will develop just as they desire.

"Competent parenthood is looked upon generally as a sort of magic endowment that makes study unnecessary. No grasp of the responsibilities and no vision of the great possibilities are considered essential when entering the career. Sometimes there is no special desire for children - merely a lucky accident ... No special though is given to new character problems that arise from day to day. No plan of action is outlined" (As the Twig is Bent, Hohman, p.2).

What, then, are the new parents to do? From all sides comes the hue and cry that the oldest profession on earth - that of rearing children - is facing abysmal failure. There are seemingly countless books on child study, child feeding and care, child training, child rearing, child psychology, and just about "child-everything!" The parents are assured that no one today really knows HOW to rear children properly. Where are they to turn? The books, articles, and other trivia dealing with the subject are confusing, to say the least.

And so - where does the parent turn to learn of this strange new life, this squirmy, wriggling, crying, giggling, tiny reproduction of themselves?

Observe a marvelous "mechanical brain." Here is a phenomenal machine, filled with thousands of miles of intricate wiring, complete with a complex panel so dizzying, so technical as to stupefy the average layman. However, in observing how this machine functions, a little of its outward looks, and watching one or two repair operations, one of the laymen takes it in his head to write a book advising other laymen exactly what this machine is all about!

But wait! Which would you rather read? The book written by the recent observer - or the manual published by the inventor and manufacturer?

Has no one ever thought of going to the INVENTOR of children? He is God!

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

"And God blessed them. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth ..." (Gen. 1:26-28).

Yes, difficult though it seems to be for the most "modern" to accept the amazing truth that God is Creator - the existence and the work of the Divine Architect stand clearly proved! (Write for our free booklet, "Does God Eist?")

God did not leave His creation in the dark! He then "... commanded the man," (Gen. 2:16) giving him certain specific instructions on HOW to LIVE!

God gave to man a manual, a textbook, an instruction book on how the human machine works! Since God is its Creator and its Inventor, God is the One who knows exactly how it operates. God gave to man certain essential knowledge - which man could not have otherwise discovered for himself! The Bible, the inspired and holy word of God is the most BASIC of all books on the subject of how to rear children!

Men have not wanted to follow the manual of the Inventor - but have turned to the misknowledge of casual observers.

Just as two and two make four, so does the fact that today’s colossal problems have been created by the poorly trained babies of yesterday!

Men have rejected this source, this revealed knowledge of how to live!

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication ... murder, debate, deceit ... inventors of evil things, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS ...." (Rom. 1:28-30).

The logical, the inevitable and the most gigantic tidal wave of juvenile lawlessness and violence that has ever infected society since its dimmest recorded beginnings.

This question is asked - and rightly deserves to be answered - simply because, by their actions, it seems many do not honestly know! All too often new born babies, and especially a first child, are treated as if they were "little green men from Mars!" is it any wonder? There seem to be more "rules" written about the squirming infant that can be pursued in the average life-time of a normal adult! "Do this!" or "Don’t do that!" is heard from every side.

The newcomer arrives as a total stranger. According to usual procedures, the father has been allowed brief glimpses of his progeny through the double thick glass of the supposedly sterilized maternity ward in the hospital. But now he is home. All of a sudden, it seems, your entire home life is completely topsy-turvy. Every sigh, every chuckle, and especially every cry from the new arrival sends your little household into a veritable frenzy. There are bottles to be carefully sterilized (since most "moderns" think it quite old-fashioned, and possibly ruinous to the figure, to nurse their babies), formulas to be mixed, schedules to be met, diapers to be folded and carefully stacked, room temperatures to be checked, morning, noon and night-time feedings - and every time the child howls you are told with all authority he most certainly has the colic, and the chances are, the doctor should be called!

Sound ridiculous? But it isn’t! It is all too often the normal procedure - the accepted routine in the arrival of a first child.

But let’s clear the air - and come down to earth. Rather than treat the new arrival as something made of the most fragile glass, let’s get a true perspective, and realize just what a child really IS!

First, he is a human being! He is an exact miniature copy of yourselves. He probably has, though it is sometimes undiscernible at such an early stage, your own looks, your very own nature, your voice, and some of your talents. However, he is also an individual with a mind definitely all his own. But exactly what IS the human self, this separate entity, this newborn child?

Let’s go to the manual of the Inventor - the inspired word of God - and see what He says.

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

"For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honor" (Psalms 8:4, 5).

A new human life is made in the exact similitude of Divine Life! God said "Let us make man in Our image!" But so far God has made man merely a physical replica, and far from an exact copy of God in character!

"O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me ... for there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether...

"For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast knit me together [margin] in my mother’s womb.

"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

"My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

"Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which day by day [margin] were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them" (Psalms 139:1, 4, 13-16).

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Rom. 8:7).

Jeremiah was inspired to write:

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

"I the Lord search the hear, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings" (Jer. 17:9, 10).

Every little baby is born with carnal nature. Carnal means nothing more than physical, sensual, earthly nature! Carnal as opposed to spiritual! Fleshly, not yet begotten of God’s Holy Spirit!

Many dozens of scriptures in the Holy Bible explain this carnal nature as a mixture of good and evil, a nature of basic selfishness, of wanting to get for the self, rather than give to others.

Observe the perfect example of carnality in a young baby! The baby is totally incapable of any such thing as "thought" at just a few days of age. Yet it is already perfectly carnal! There is no "reasoning process" by which the baby simply decides to howl at 2 or 3 a.m.

If the father has had a very busy and nerve-racking day at the office, the mother has had to do an unusually large washing, clean house, tend the baby and prepare the meals, and both are very tired - the child is totally unable to think of, understand or comprehend any of these things.

The impulse of hunger, discomfort, lonesomeness, or the pain of an upset stomach is all that is necessary to launch the child on a yowling, howling tirade until it gets what it wants.

This is not stated here to say that it is wrong or unnecessary to ten to a baby when it cries at night, nor to see to its needs - but to illustrate the fact that we are all born with basic carnal nature, which thinks only of self.

On the other hand, one of the greatest blessings God ever promised some of His patriarchs was the blessing of children! Abraham, by faith, waited many years for a son! All of the promises which God gave to ancient Israel had to do with the begettal of healthy children! God says:

"He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord!" (Psalms 113:9).

"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

"As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

"Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate" (Psalms 127:3-5).

Children are precious, priceless gifts from Almighty God to any parents!

What a pity that more parents today do not understand the REAL MIRACLE of childbirth, and give God thanks for ! a child is the sweetest, most lovely and beautiful, altogether most exciting and completely satisfying thing that can happen to a young married couple who are truly in love!

God says:

"Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord; that walketh in His ways.

"For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

"Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plats round about thy table.

"Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord" (Psalms 128: 1-4).

Almost without fail, modern books available on child psychology will group children, according to various ages, into certain "PHASES" or "STAGES" of growth and development.

For a general view of these patterns, let’s notice the following quotation:

"Our observations of child behavior have led us to believe that almost any kind of behavior you can think of ... develops by means of remarkably patterned and largely predictable stages.

"The eighteen-monthers walks down the one-way street, though this one-way street can be readily reversed. And this street more often than not seems to lead in a direction exactly opposite that which the adult has in mind. Asked to ‘come here, dear’ he either stands still or runs in the opposite direction. (He any even like to walk backwards.) Ask him to put something in the wastebasket, and he is more likely to empty out what is already in it. Hold out your hand for the cup which he has just drained, he will drop it onto the floor. Give him a second sock to put on, and he will more likely than not remove the one which is already on his foot. His enjoyment of the opposite may be the reason why it works so well, if he is running away from you, to say ‘bye-bye’ and walk away from him. Then he may come running. Not only does he not come when called - he seldom obeys any verbal command. ‘No’ is his chief word" (p. 22, Child Behavior, Ilg & Ames).

To state the "eighteen-mother" does all these disobedient act simply by virtue of being 18-months old is a piteous display of idiocy!

The 18-month WILL do these things, ONLY if he has been left without any supervision, has never been left without any supervision, has never been trained, never been taught the MEANING of obedience, and has been turned out to "pasture" like any animal, rather than reared by his parents.

Let’s really UNDERSTAND.

By having already carelessly ASSUMED any means of punishment or control over a child to be harmful, the child psychologists have laboriously catalogued the "behavior" patterns of children - by merely OBSERVING them.

They have, instead of TRAINING the children, seeing how positive methods of real teaching, instruction and discipline will work, merely "observed" the little children much in the same manner as watching monkeys in cages. They have busily made notes, and collected sage observations. As a result of these widespread "observations," the modern child psychologists have carefully documented certain definite PHASES in the actions of children.

Let’s notice carefully, however, that these phases are merely the INEVITABLE reactions of UNtrained children, UNdisiplined children, who have been OBSERVED instead of trained! Ask a dog who has been TRAINED to "come here!" and it will OBEY! Give a horse a command when it has been TRAINED, and it will OBEY! But, assure the child behaviorists, you cannot expect such obedience from the infinitely more intelligent, far superior human mind!

My own 18-monthers, when asked to "Come here, dear!" - came here! When asked to put something in the wastebasket - they immediately put it in the wastebasket. When holding out my hand for the cups they had drained, they immediately gave there to me. Given a second sock, they always put it on!

Why?

Simply because they had been TAUGHT to do these things!

This entire quotation will be discussed later, revealing the really serious consequences which may be reaped by any family foolish enough to believe it.

Later, the authors of this particular work, in breaking down one of the supposed "stages" through which all children are to pass (with varying differences according to their own individuality) the authors state:

"Two and a half years: This is an age about which parents may need warning because so much that the child now does naturally, almost inevitably, is directly contrary to what his parents would like to have him do. The 21/2 - year-old is not, temperamentally, an easy, adaptable member of any social group.

"The change in behavior which takes place between two and two-and-one-half can be rather overwhelming, perhaps to the child as well as to the adults who surrounded him. Two-and-a-half is a peak age of disequilibrium. Parents often say that they can’t do a thing with the child of this age ... First of all, two-and-a-half is rigid and inflexible. He wants exactly what he wants when he wants it. He cannot adapt, give in, wait a little while. Everything has to be done just so. Everything has to be in the right place he considers its proper place. For any domestic routine, he sets up a rigid sequence of events which must follow each other always in the same manner."

Here we are assured, the little, tiny toddling two-and-a-half-old human baby, who is totally carnal, entirely selfish, and yet a very sweet and lovable little reproduction of our own selves is just BOUND to act in this prescribed fashion - simply because he has reached one of the "steps" along the ladder of life- the "stage" at two-and-a-half years of age. Parents are assured this child CANNOT ADAPT! That means, if parents attempt to get him to "adapt" they may run the dire risks of "breaking his spirit," "giving him a complex," or any number of perfectly horrible results. Parents are assured the little two-and-a-half-year-old toddler cannot possibly "give in" or "wait awhile"! Therefore, the entire household, whether the father is a truck driver, lawyer, or the President of the United States completely revolves around, waits on, is ordered according to, adapted to, and adjusted to the CHILDISH WHIMS of a little toddling two-and-a-half-year-old baby!

Can such quotations really appear even credible? Isn’t it even a little UNBELIEVABLE that adult human beings COULD POSSIBLY ADVOCATE such a heinous, monstrous, rotten, ABOMINATION in the sight of God?

What would a parent do if he had SERIOUSLY FOLLOWED these idiotic and spineless teachings in some of the following eventualities?

Suppose a little "eighteen-monther" was toddling off the curb, into the path of rumbling, swiftly-moving traffic! IF HE IS TO BE NORMALLY EXPECTED TO "RUN THE OTHER WAY," "IF YOU DON’T DARE COMMAND HIM TO "COME HERE!" THEN WHAT ARE YOU TO DO?

"Second, he is extremely domineering and demanding. He must give the orders. He must make the decisions. If he decides, ‘mummy do’ daddy cannot be accepted as a substitute. ... Two-and-a-half is an age of violent emotions. There is little modulation to the emotional life of the child at this age.

"Furthermore, it is an age of opposite extremes. ...Total all these characteristics together and you have a child who is not easy to deal with. Vigorous, enthusiastic, energetic, the typical two-and-a-half may be. But he is not an easy person to have around the house. However, mothers will find that great patience, a real understanding of the difficulties of the age and a willingness to use endless techniques to get around rigidities and rituals and stubbornness will help get through the time till the difficult two-and-a-half turns three" (pp. 25-27, Child Behavior, Ilg. & Ames).

Fantastic, isn’t it? The little two-and-a-half-year-old is extremely domineering and demanding - and HE MUST GIVE THE ORDERS! HE must make the decisions for the family! IF HE DECIDES THAT HIS MOTHER SHOULD PERFORM SOME TASK FOR HIM, he will not accept "daddy" as a substitute! Thus, gullible parents are assured that these characteristics of a two-and-a-half-year-old child are just as sure, just as irrevocable as an approaching cold front out the North! There is nothing they can do about it - it just IS "that way"!

Then, supposedly, he advances to the stage of 4 years, where he likes to HIT, BITE, THROW ROCKS, BREAK TOYS and RUN AWAY! The 4-year-old, assured the doctor, is just NORMALLY expected to do these things - because, you see, he is four! He is not cowed by material threats, and does NOT FEAR threats of punishment, but is defiant and swaggering!

And then - the INCOMPREHENSIBLE suggestion is given by the learned doctor - that parents must use "firm" discipline." BUT WHAT KIND? How? And are RESULTS to be expected?

The doctor didn’t say. But they ignorantly went on, "The 6-year-old often like to say ‘I’ll kill you,’ or ‘I hate you.’" It is also, advises the doctor to bewildered parents, the age when he is most apt to CHEAT and STEAL!

But - THIS ISN’T ALL!

By the time the child is 8, he is exuberant, expansive, cocky and rarely finishes anything he starts. At 9, he is independent and resists bossing, exploiting adults to get his own way, and uses neurotic excuses. At 10, he is suddenly "nice", said the doctor - but at eleven he is RUDE and ARGUMENTATIVE. The doctor warned sagely against making demands on any 11- year -old.

At 13, they like to be left alone, at 14 they are "noisy" said the doctor and at 15 they are "HARD BOILED" and practically secede from the family union.

But parents who are busily "SWEATING IT OUT" are advised not to fear these awesome gyrations, neurotic tendencies, demoniacal rages, psychotic behaviors, these fearsome crimes, enraged attacks, expressions of hatred and sudden disappearances of their growing progeny.

No - there will be a brighter day tomorrow! "And 16," said the doctor, "is really sweet 16." At last - according to this particular pediatrician, your children are happy, friendly, good tempered, self-assured and "realize that Mom and Dad have finally learned something in the past few months.’

Funny?

It would he, if it were not so piteous, so utterly shameful, and so terrifyingly DAMAGING to the eager, pliable, growing minds of our youth!

Isn’t it almost a complete insult to the intelligence of any normal-minded human being to accept and believe, let alone attempt to "practice" such methods of "child observance" (since it certainly cannot he called "child rearing")?

Can you see? Can you really comprehend what is BEHIND this false concept?

The behaviorists have merely put together the carnal, natural REBELLION in a child with his obvious increased energies, co-ordination, scope of activity, increased motor facility, longer reach, and growth in all physical capacities.

OBVIOUSLY a REBELLIOUS, UNTRAINED child of FOUR will be getting into even MORE trouble than a rebellious child of ONE and ONE HALF! OBVIOUSLY the eighteen-monther, who is already REBELLIOUS, and has not had that rebellion driven from him, and who has NOW LEARNED TO RUN, will run from his parents’ commands! The child psychologists can very SAFELY predict these "behavior patterns" in untrained, rebellious, resentful, hostile, MONSTROUS little children who have never really known any authority!

Yes, let’s really look at what we’ve read - let’s really get PRACTICAL with it, and ask some truly basic questions. Isn’t it pretty poor comfort to tell a parent with the little two-and-a-half-year-old already described that he should be willing to use "endless techniques" and develop "understanding" to help him survive the time until his little 21/2-year-old turns three?

The child psychologists, observing the growth of hundreds of children, have quickly recognized there really are various "stages" through which children pass.

These phases represent increased motor activity, growing bodies, acquired skills, new means of expression and the widening horizons of all children!

OF COURSE there are "phases!" A rebellious child of 8 months may only wail and scream - finally sucking his thumb for comfort! The same child, still rebellious, may shout "No!" to every parental command and throw violent temper tantrums at age two!

But children are not caged beasts - to be "observed" as they grow. They are precious human lives capable of building real character and they must be trained!

Frequently, you hear of adults speaking of "getting unwound’ by means of recreation or other activity. We talk of being "tense" or "high-strung" or "keyed-up"! So far, so good. This, to a degree, is absolutely true.

Every adult, especially engaged in they type of occupation which demands high-tension mental concentration, needs a "change of pace" once in awhile - to "unwind"! But wouldn’t it be a strange society if the adults were given to weird emotional outbursts, in which they seized a gun, shot down, five or six helpless bystanders, cudgeled a policemen to death, and then, their feelings assuaged, lapsed into their ordinary and daily routine? A ridiculous suggestion - to say the least! And yet, this is the EXACT avocation of many who would assure you they are foremost authorities on how to rear children.

It is reasoned that children also need to "unwind"! But, since their minds are not yet intelligent enough to lead them into other recreational activities or diversions, they often times throw a "temper tantrum"! This, assure the child psychologists, is merely a method of "letting off steam" and should be patiently ignored by the parent!

"Anger and resistance are the natural responses to being blocked. Children show this by having temper tantrums when they have to be interrupted to be washed, dressed, or taken to the toilet. They burst out if they are interfered with at play. Hunger and fatigue and other kinds of thwarting situations that produce anger" [emphasis mine] (p. 356, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

Yes, anger and resistance are the NATURAL responses to being blocked! That is, they are the CARNAL responses. But simply because they are the "natural" responses to authority - does not make them right!

"At about the age of two, children show anger more often than they are likely to when they are older. ...If we can somehow interest him in the new thing we want him to do, we may avoid a scene. ...A negative reaction to commands at this age is so common that the foresighted mother tries to avoid conflict by giving as few orders as possible and making requests instead" (p. 356-357, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

What an unbelievable quotation! How does a parent in a restaurant, or in a public market or shop, really put these empty theories into practice? How would you apply this ridiculous suggestion in the following circumstance?

You are in a nice restaurant with your wife and children. Johnnie, aged 21/2, becomes angry at the food you’ve chosen for him. While you are trying to politely give the waitress your order, Johnnie begins to SCREAM with anger! He shouts, at the top of his high-pitched voice, "No!No!No! I DON’T WANT THAT!" and, throwing himself to the floor, begins to kick, cry and scream in a frenzy of unbridled emotion!

Do the parents merely calmly smile, placidly ignore Johnnie, and go right on ordering?

IF THEY SHOULD - I DOUBT IF THE OWNER OF THE RESTAURANT PERMITS THEM TO REMAIN IN HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS!

Well, then, do they "somehow interest him in the new thing" they want him to do, and "avoid a scene?"

not really very PRACTICAL, is it? Do YOU think the empty theories advocated by today’s generation of authority-haters are really WORKABLE?

Here again, the authors assure us a negative reaction to commands is common at this particular age!

This is true - ONLY if the child has not been trained correctly from birth! It is true ONLY if the parents have not punished the child, have not had right and correct discipline, have not known HOW to rear their children properly, but have merely been "observing their children growing up" instead of really actively rearing them! Otherwise, if the child of two years of age has been trained, has been shown the proper and deep LOVE, consideration and care, but at the same time authoritative discipline given from love, and in love, he will NOT, under any circumstances, at any time, burst into anger and shout "no!" at his parents. I have the living PROOF of this fact in my own home!

"It has already been pointed out that a child between the ages of 18 months and three years tends to say ‘no’ to every suggestion. If he is not constantly being given directions and commands, he has less chance to build up this habit of balkiness.

"If parents could only train themselves not to be shocked when their young children express their anger by saying. ‘I hate you’ or by calling them names, they would improve their relations with their children. The average father and mother have forgotten the feelings of resentment they had in early life toward their own parents. ...A child drains off his resentment if he is allowed to express ... if he is made to feel guilty over these natural reactions, if he has to suppress them or be punished, his feelings may be in a turmoil! But if his parents can say to his expressions of HATE, ‘Of course you feel that way. I used to, too, when someone made me do something,’ he doesn’t STORE UP guilt over his conflicting feelings about his father and mother" (p. 359, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parent Institute). [Emphasis mine].

Notice it! Parents are encouraged to actively aid and abet their children in BREAKING God’s fifth commandment! God says, "Honor thy father and mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee! And, "Children OBEY thy parents in the Lord, for this is right!" But "modern" parents are told to say to their own children "I used to hate my parents too!" and tell their little toddlers they "understand" why their own children are shouting and screaming in a fit of temper, throwing themselves on the floor, kicking and practically frothing at the mouth while they scream "I HATE YOU!"

the explanation that has been given in this quotation is so frightfully stupid, so horrifyingly naive, and so shockingly idiotic that it leaves one in a veritable quandary.

Listen! The RIGHTEOUSLY INDIGNANT voice of the Almighty God THUNDERS at such insipid and SATANIC teachings from the reaches of His very THRONE IN HEAVEN! GOD IS ANGRY with such swill.

You can’t afford to take these things lightly!

The greatest responsibility ever placed on a human being is that of forming, shaping, teaching other human minds! God warns against many becoming TEACHERS, saying they will receive even sterner judgment! To take the potentially wonderful minds of our innocent youth, FRUSTRATING them, TWISTING them, PERVERTING them, allowing them to be filled with DEMONICAL RAGES, HATRED, TEMPER OUTBURSTS is a GIANT, GARGANTUAN SIN!

Let’s understand! The emotions in a tiny child are not like compressed air in a bottle. Child psychologists have followed the theory that human emotions are much like compressing air in a bottle. The more it is compressed, the more resistance against a cap. Just like a pressure cooker, or a boiling pot of water on the stove, they theorize that resentment and rebellion, building up within the child, needs to "explode" and to "let off steam" every now and then! Actually, they are in total error!

The child who is supposedly allowed to "drain of his resentment" in this fashion is the child who could well be opening up his mind to extremely serious consequences in a spiritual sense - of which the child psychologists know nothing. Such a child will very definitely build up a HABIT of rebellion toward authority, obedience, temper tantrums, and hatred. The thought of allowing a tiny toddling boy of barely over two years of age to shout and scream at his own parents "I HATE YOU!" and even encouraging him in it is the EXACT thing J. Edgar Hoover talked about when he said our society has been substituting "indulgence for discipline"!

Human emotions do not have "intrinsic worth." Ignorant theorists assume the explosive outbursts and temper tantrums of children are actually lessening the "pressures" within the child, rather than encouraging the SIN of rebellion ! it is as if you had a bag of marbles, they theorize, each marble labeled "hatred"! As you dip into the bag and subtract each marble, you have fewer marbles left in the sack! Thus, they reasoned, as a child is allowed to "express himself" in crazed fits of screaming anger, he has increasingly less chance of doing it again!

"The mother who says she cannot ignore a screaming, kicking youngster usually means she has not found out how to use ignoring as a constructive method. Leaving him and going about her business may work better than she thinks it will. The minute he hasn’t an audience his pleasure in the performance begins to die down. Naturally, if she herself is so angered by his temper that her attitude in ignoring him is hateful, ignoring will only cause him to feel more hostile. But if she can treat his anger as not too serious a matter, if she is prepared for other primitive ways of acting in early childhood, like eating with fingers, it will be more likely to subside" [emphasis mine] (p. 358, The Complete Book of Mothercraft, Parents Institute).

Parents are told this is merely a phase through which the child is passing, and he will soon get over it all.

"In most families the phase in which tantrums are most likely to occur passes and is forgotten. If tantrums are continuous, however, or recur past the age of five, they may be a signal to seek help from a child-guidance counselor equipped to discover underlying causes" (p. 548-549, The Encyclopedia of Childcare and Guidance, Gruenberg).

" ... We see that the baby protests against unpleasant experiences by crying. These responses may be considered as emanating from the instinct of self-preservation.

"The response ... continues throughout life. This crying of the baby becomes the temper tantrum of the older child and a part of the life-long fight for independence. As such it represents one of the strongest impulses responsible for human behavior" (p. 28, In Defense of Children, Beverly).

This very aptly titled book assures parents temper tantrums are nothing more than the natural outgrowth of the first wails of a tiny baby, expressing his need for "independence!"

These theories are simply untrue. Temper tantrums show a complete lack of self-discipline - and far from being merely a STAGE through which the child is growing, are gravely serious warning signs of a child totally lacking in self-control. It is just such thoughtless teachings as these that have led thousands of children past the bars of justice across our land, and have made hopeless emotional wrecks out of uncounted millions of others.

Rather than going through a "stage" of child development, which they will grow out of, children allowed to express insane rage at their parents are building a natural habit of hatred!

Now notice a refreshingly sound quotation for a change:

"Let, us - parents, teachers, and all others having to do with the training of youth - see to it that adolescents acquire self-control. Let us save them from the injuries effects of this newfangled idea that young people can grow up to do as they please. Confusion worse confounded will be the state of the next generation if it is generally accepted. If you, as a parent, have done your duty in the nursery and during the pre-adolescent period, I assure you the days of actual punishment will be over long ere your youngsters reach their teens. But if for any reason you have failed in the earlier years, and your children have attained adolescence without learning self-control, then I admonish you not to depend exclusively upon these new-fangled psychologic notions or on any fantastic interpretation of Freudian philosophy, and refrain from chastisement through fear that your children will not develop leadership. Leadership - bah! Who wants a boy to grow up to be a leader of a criminal gang? Indeed, if we go on after this fashion, we can truly say ‘what price leadership!’" [emphasis mine] (p. 141, Piloting Modern Youth, Sadler).

Some children are said to be "perfect!" Other children are said to be "impossible!" The parents thus categorize these children, letting all and sundry, in the few moments of conversation, know of these "categories" into which their children fit. In this manner, they hope, when their child destroys the neighbor’s china or his furniture are neighbor will patiently understand - because he has been intelligently forewarned that this particular child was "impossible."

Possessing a dog that is known to bite, the owners are instructed to keep him muzzled! Having a child that is given to biting, the parents assure their neighbors their child is "a little biter" but that he will soon outgrow this particular "phase!" many and varied are the mythical phases of childhood! If you want to rear a child who will defy every supposed "stage" through which he is obligated to grow, according to the child psychologists, simply rear him God’s way! He will not throw things at one, kick you at one-and-a-half, scream "no!" at two, throw temper tantrums at two-and-a-half, bit the neighbor’s children at three, run away from home at three-and-a-half, be overbold at four, or neurotic at five! Rather, at all these ages, he will be lovable, obedient, helpful, self-reliant, respectful toward authority, and will, most of all, be living proof that the in-insipid theorizing and demented arguments about his "phases" are totally untrue!

Let us ask a final question of the child psychologists: "If our children don’t scream "NO!" at 2, run away at three-and-a-half or show other signs of these ‘stages’ or growth - are they sick?"

THE HUMAN CHILD is the most helpless of all newborn creatures. The young colt, the calf, even the baby porpoise and whale are able to stand, walk, leap or swim within hours, even minutes after birth!

But they are creatures of instinct! A human being does not have instinct, but a MIND! No one had to teach the young colt where to go for its "dinner." It simply went there - automatically! But God gave man a mind capable of accumulating knowledge. It is a mind much like the mind of God, though limited in its capacity.

As a creature of habit, a baby begins to LEARN at the very INSTANT of its birth! The way in which it first learns is by mere association. But these "associations" begin to form certain HABITS within the rapidly growing and developing mind of a newly born human baby. Let us understand the way in which the newborn child learns.

Very quickly, the baby becomes accustomed to the smell, the taste and sounds of its own mother. (We are here speaking of that which is the average and normal, not foster mothers, wet-nurses, etc.). If the infant of only a very few weeks is hungry, and begins to cry of his food, it may be observed that he will oftentimes quit crying the moment he is picked up by his mother, because the sound of her reassuring voice, the feeling of her arms lifting him from his bassinet, and the smell of her own body has begun to become completely associated with the satisfying taste of her milk!

Perhaps you have seen cases where tiny babies have been reared in very quiet homes. It takes only the slightest rattling of the bottles by the milkman, the dropping of the cover on the mail-box by the postman, or the barking of a dog to awaken the child from a mid-afternoon nap. This is true, because the baby has become accustomed to living in a very quiet environment. If the child has been used to a noisy environment, such trivial sounds would never disturb him during his nap.

This factor of learning by association is so vitally important that it must be understood thoroughly.

No sensible dog trainer would think of confusing a dog under training with more than the simplest, straightforward and direct commands!

In attempting to "house-break" a dog, the dog is simply taken to his sandbox, newspaper, or outdoors, he is reassured, patted and fondled. The trainer tries to carefully take the dog to such a place at prescribed intervals. If and when the dog makes a mistake (and they usually always do!) the trainer very severely rebukes him, says, "bad dog!" forces him to smell the mess he has made, and spanks him for it! Gradually, by constant diligence, and by means of ASSOCIATION, the dog becomes housebroken. He learns that it is going to net harsh words, and a spanking for relieving himself in certain areas. He learns, on the other hand, that he will be given tidbits to eat, a reassuring hand and a soft voice when he uses his prescribed areas.

There are absolutely millions of parents today who do not know how to keep a child from becoming as destructive as a proverbial "bull in a china shop!"

They are completely helpless to keep their child from crawling about from one thing to another, turning over knickknacks, pulling doilies from tables, pulling out electric plugs, tearing up books and magazines, or any other of the one thousand and one different things a little crawling infant seems to "get into" Myriad, countless, it seems, are the parents who have not the slightest glimpse of understanding as to HOW to cope with such a situation!

A vitally important principle every parent needs to understand is that good habits must be constantly taught the child, beginning AT BIRTH!

"‘Never too old to learn’ is truer in reverse. The further it is reversed, the truer it becomes. ‘Never too young to learn’ is the idea parents and nurses should always bear in mind. The more a behavior pattern is affixed to the primary, simple, unconditioned responses, the easier it is to establish firmly. That is to say, the sooner habits (good or bad) are inculcated, the more force they will have, the longer they will endure, the harder they will be to change" (As the Twig Is Bent, p. 22, Hohman).

Yes, the time to begin training children is much earlier then most parents think!

Unfortunately, not all writers on child training give such sound advice.

Because of the CARNAL nature in human beings, which is a nature in human beings, which is a nature tending to degerate, rather than build up, it seems to be much simpler for children to acquire bad habits than it is to learn good one. Hence, it appears that thumb-sucking, throwing silver on the floor, or other habits are acquired after only two or three attempts, while it takes many months to teach a child to stay dry. The simple answer to this problem is that the carnal child learns much more quickly to do that which is pleasurable, that which satisfies the downward pull of his nature, that which is curious, interesting, and easy to do, RATHER than that which takes effort, concentration, and persistence! It is much easier to obtain a bad habits than it is to acquire a good one!

Obviously, since the child repeats what he enjoys, it is good for parents to make interesting and enjoyable things which the child needs to acquire. However, when all is said and done, the child must learn to do that which is right, enjoyable or not!

Most parents assume their very tiny children are too young to teach! They believe they should wait until the child is old enough to "understand." However , this excuse is often carried over into most of the pre-school years by many parents, resulting in a perfectly horrible little child who is rebellious, ill-mannered, disrespectful toward his elders, and generally destructive.

Perhaps the second most important manner in which a very young child acquires certain habits is through mimicking and imitating others.

"Aren’t such activities as climbing, imitation, emulation, and rivalry, pugnacity, anger, resentment, sympathy, bunting, fear, appropriation, acquisitiveness, kleptomania, constructiveness, play, curiosity, modesty, shame, love, jealousy, parental love, and all of these pure instincts which appear and run their course completely beyond the control of the parents? Surely, these things are not dependent upon the way I let my child grow up. Most of the older psychologists would agree with you. The behaviorist believed, too, when he began his work, that some of these acts would spring forth fully formed. But we waited for their appearance in vain. Now we are forced to believe from the study of facts that all of these forms of behavior are built in by the parents and by the environment which the parent allows the child to grow up in. There are no instinct. We build in at an early age everything that is later to appear" (Psychological Care of the Infant and Child, pp. 37-38, Watson).

As has been previously outlined, human beings know nothing at birth. They must acquire, through the channels of the five sense, everything they come to know. One of the major ways in which every human being learns is mimicking, imitating others.

This method of learning is so powerful, so intense that it follows us all through our lives - often guiding and ruling our every action, our customs and our habits, even as mature adults.

Understanding this broad field of imitation as a means of child training - is should become immediately clear the parents have a frightening responsibility of setting the right EXAMPLE before the children!

Parents who are raucous, disagreeing, and show they are frequently upset with one another are going to be surprised to find they will have children who will also become raucous, disagreeable and given to temper displays and angry outbursts. It also logically follows that parents with bad table manners unclean personal habits, resentment toward authority, inherent laziness or any number of hundreds of similar frailties and faults are presenting a constant, powerful influence over their children to