VII. THE REPRESSIVE METHOD OF TRAINING 104 Age when training should begin--Repressive method is negative-- Illustrations of repressive commands--Their effect on the boy-- The play spirit in the young--A factor in mental and moral growth--The passive system of training--Evils of lavish supply of money--Effects of repression are depressing--Acts should not be prohibited without suggestion of other acts to fill the void created--Mental inspiration of praise. VIII. THE SUGGESTIVE METHOD OF TRAINING 117 Necessity for formulating definite plan of training--Impossible to state a simple rule--American habit of drifting out of touch with offspring--Duty of fathers to continue intimacy with sons through adolescence--American children not generally well bred-- English, German, French and Japanese methods contrasted-- Suggestion is informative and inspirational--Negative commands produce mental hostility and will combat--Illustrations of effect of suggestion--A father’s plan--The big brother comradeship of father and son. IX. THE HABIT OF FALSEHOOD 132 Imagination a characteristic of childhood--Fantasy as real to childhood as reality--The cause of lies--Illustrations--The fisherman’s lie--Clarity of mental processes largely determines whether a statement is a lie or an untruth--The lie of the older boy--Desire to avoid punishment the chief cause of falsehood--The remedy for falsehood--Moral suasion, its definition and application. X. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT 143 The place occupied by corporal punishment as a corrective measure--Reasons advanced for its use--Illustration from a banker’s experience--Average child does not rebel against authority--But only against authority unjustly or harshly exercised--The boy’s view of corporal punishment--Breaking the boy’s will--Unjust or excessive punishments conduce to lying--Effect of nagging on children--Mental _versus_ physical punishment--Effective substitutes for corporal punishment. XI. THE CIGARETTE HABIT 157 Effect of nicotine on human organism--A physician’s opinion-- Tobacco and the adult--Age when boys acquire the habit--Effects of tobacco on adolescents--Opinion of Dr. Seaver based on physical measurements of smokers and non-smokers--Cigarette most pernicious form of tobacco--Influences which actuate boys to acquire the habit--Poisons in the cigarette--Acrolein and carbonic oxide--Moral effects--Juvenile criminals are generally cigarette fiends--Methods used to dissuade boys from beginning-- Suggestion of a remedy for those who have contracted the habit. XII. BOY GANGS 173