Periods in child’s life when instruction should be given-- Instruction should be suited to his psychological requirements-- Mother should begin instruction--Method known as the biological approach--Nature and amount of instruction necessary--Father should assume instruction at puberty--Necessary admonitions-- Influence of theatrical productions with a sex-appeal--Musical comedies, burlesque and vaudeville shows--Sex-hygiene societies--A list of pamphlets published--A list of books recommended. XVII. CHILDREN’S COURTS 254 An instrumentality for reclaiming the wayward boy--The state formerly regarded delinquent boy as a criminal--New attitude toward dependent and delinquent children--Their mental and moral concepts not matured--Infractions of law are manifestations of moral disease which it is the state’s business to cure--Child under sixteen cannot be a criminal-- Delinquent child is a ward of the state--The Juvenile Court-- Methods of dealing with boys--The probation officer--Laws for control of delinquent parents. XVIII. CONCLUSIONS 270 Every boy has inalienable right to be well trained--Basis of boy-training is parent-training--Insight, tact and patience necessary--Boy’s need of father’s companionship--Certain physical abnormalities affect intellect and character--Effects of heredity contrasted with environment--All boys possess a common nature--Summary of rules bearing on boy-training. YOUR BOY AND HIS TRAINING YOUR BOY AND HIS TRAINING CHAPTER I THE ETERNAL BOY-PROBLEM He who helps a child helps humanity with a distinctness, with an immediateness, which no other help given to human creatures in any other stage of their human life can possibly give again. --BISHOP PHILLIPS BROOKS. Boy-problems, like boys, are always with us. Wherever there is a boy there are problems to be solved. The perfect boy may live somewhere--but not in my immediate neighborhood. Even though he possesses many of the attributes of perfection, he will be found wanting in industry, or thrift, or orderliness, or courtesy, or studiousness. He may even show such traits as disobedience, untruthfulness, selfishness, truancy, thievery, or immorality. The complete boy does not just grow--he is builded and the parent is both architect and builder.