Hints of Child Training BOOK

Henry Clay Trumbull is generally considered the founder of what we know today as Sunday school. He was also a parent who faced the challenge of guiding the development of his children. This love for children prompted him to write a book that addressed the basics of parenting.

Hints on Child Training is that book. Nothing changed. nothing added. Presented in concise chapters, dealing with ares in which every child must be trained, this book is filled with practical guidelines on parenting that possess timeless value. Wisdom to train your children. Wisdom for generations of parents to come.

The lack of will-power is the lack of personal power, with a child as with an adult.

Henry. Clay Trumbull, 1980

Surprised? These words have such a contemporary sound. Even though quite a bit has changed over the last hundred years, some things have remained the same. Parents today are concerned with the tarining of their children just as parents wre in years past – just as parents will be for years to come.

Children will always need to be loved and disciplined. They will always have to be taught responsibility, character, discipline, courtesy, self-control, and good habits. Children will always need the training of their parents.

Contents

  1. Child Training: What Is It?
  2. The Duty of Training Children
  3. Scope and Limitations of Child Training
  4. Discerning a Child’s Special Need of Training
  5. Will-Training, Rather than Will-Breaking
  6. The Place of “Must” in Training
  7. Denying a Child Wisely
  8. Honoring a Child’s Individuality
  9. Letting Alone as a Means of Child Training
  10. Training a Child to Self-Control
  11. Training a Child Not to Tease
  12. Training a Child’s Appetite
  13. Training a Child as a Questioner
  14. Training a Child’s Faith
  15. Training Children to Sabbath Observance
  16. Training a Child in Amusements
  17. Training a Child to Courtesy
  18. Cultivating a Child’s Taste in Reading
  19. The Value of Table Talk
  20. Guiding a Child in Companionships
  21. Never Punish a Child in Anger
  22. Scolding Is Never in Order
  23. Dealing Tenderly with a Child’s Fears
  24. The Sorrows of Children
  25. The Place of Sympathy in Child Training
  26. Influence of the Home Atmosphere
  27. The Power of a Mother’s Love
  28. Allowing Play to a Child’s Imagination
  29. Giving Added Value to a Child’s Christmas
  30. Good-Night Words

Training vs Teaching

(The) training of a child is the shaping, the developing, and the controlling of his personal faculties and powers; while the teaching of child is the scuring to him of knowledge from beyond himself.

We teach a child the meaning of words. We train a child in speaking and walking.
We teach him the truths which we have learned for ourselves. We traini him in habits of study, that he may be able to learn other truths for himself.

Teaching

  • to know
  • gives knowledge
  • fills the mind
  • brings to the child that which he did not have before

Training

  • to do
  • gives skill
  • shapes the habits
  • enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession

Child training properly begins at child birth.

Child training does not change a child’s nature, but it does changes his modes of giving expression to his nature.

It is a parent’s privilege, and it is a parent’s duty, to make his children, by God’s blessing, to be and to do what they should be and do, rather than what they would like to be and do.

It is his mission to find out the child’s special lack, and to meet it; to learn what traits are in excess, and to curb them; to know the child’s needs, and to train him accordingly.

Every father and every mother should be a skilled physician in charge of such institution.

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