310 Conclusion, and Future Outlook 



MEET EACH AWAKENING INTEREST 



A very reliable general rule of guidance for the 

 parent child trainer is to strive to furnish intensive 

 practice for each and every childish and juvenile 

 interest at the time of its awakening. As stated in 

 Chapter II the most predominant interests in the 

 young emerge in response to the unfoldment of in- 

 stincts and the development of organic growths 

 within. Perhaps all do so. But the point of im- 

 portance for the parent is to meet each of these awak- 

 enings at the time of its highest activity with inten- 

 sive training. The instinct to play, to fight, to steal, 

 to run away, to work ( ?), to fall in love, to engage 

 in some occupation, to marry and make a home, to 

 have children these have been named as espe- 

 cially important by virtue of their awakening suc- 

 cessively the individual's interests in matters of great 

 consequence to character development. 



But instincts are blind. Their possessor does not 

 foresee the way they point. They come suddenly 

 and catch the subject unprepared to direct their force 

 in what we call intelligent ways. Hence, the extreme 

 necessity of there being present at the side of the 

 child, at the time of his instinctive awakening, some 

 mature and intelligent person who has been through 

 the experiences the former is about to begin, and who 

 will sympathetically point the right way and insist 

 that it be followed. 



