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128 The Century of the Child
If it is a case of a danger, which it is desir-
able that the child should really dread, we must
allow the thing itself to have an alarming in-
fluence. When a mother strikes a child be-
cause he touches the light, the result is that he
does this again when the mother is away. But
let him burn himself with the light, then he is
certain to leave it alone. In riper years when
a boy misuses a knife, a toy, or something simi-
lar, the loss of the object for the time being
must be the punishment. Most boys would
prefer corporal punishment to the loss of their
favourite possession. But only the loss of it
will be a real education through experience of
one of the inevitable rules of life, an experience
which cannot be too strongly impressed.
We hear parents who have begun with
Spencer and then have taken to corporal pun-
ishment declare that when children are too
small to repair the clothing which they have
torn there must be some other kind of punish-
ment. But at that age they should not be pun-
ished at all for such things. They should have
such simple and strong clothes that they can
play freely in them. Later on, when they can
be really careful, the natural punishment
would be to have the child remain at home if
he is careless, has spotted his clothes, or torn
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