Let us offer a few definite practical counsels to a parent who wishes to deal seriously with a bad habit. _First._--Let us remember that this bad habit has made its record in the brain. _Second._--There is one way only of obliterating such record; the absolute cessation of the habit for a considerable space of time, say, some six or eight weeks. _Third._--During this interval new growth, new cell connections, are somehow or other taking place, and the physical seat of the evil is undergoing a natural healing. _Fourth._--But the only way to secure this pause is to introduce some new habit as attractive to the child as is the wrong habit you set yourself to cure. _Fifth._--As the bad habit usually arises from the defect of some quality in the child it should not be difficult for the parent who knows his child’s character to introduce the contrary good habit. _Sixth._--Take a moment of happy confidence between parent and child; introduce, by tale or example, the stimulating idea; get the child’s will with you. _Seventh._--Do not tell him to do the new thing, but quietly and cheerfully _see that he does it_ on all possible occasions, for weeks if need be, all the time stimulating the new idea, until it takes great hold of the child’s imagination. _Eighth._--Watch most carefully against any recurrence of the bad habit. _Ninth._--Should the old fault recur, do not condone it. Let the punishment, chiefly the sense of your estrangement, be acutely felt. Let the child feel the shame of not only having done wrong, but of having done the wrong when it was perfectly easy to avoid the wrong and do the right. Above all “watch unto prayer” and teach your child dependence upon divine aid in this warfare of the spirit; but also, the absolute necessity for his own efforts.