Publisher's Synopsis
It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in themanagement and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle ofauthority, as the basis of the parental government, and the substitution of some weak and inefficientsystem of artifice and manoeuvring in its place. To suppose that the object of this work is to aid ineffecting such a substitution as that, is entirely to mistake its nature and design. The onlygovernment of the parent over the child that is worthy of the name is one of authority-complete, absolute, unquestioned authority. The object of this work is, accordingly, not to show how the gentlemethods which will be brought to view can be employed as a substitute for such authority, but howthey can be made to aid in establishing and maintaining it
