We may summarize, in so far as it is possible to do so (of necessity, crudely and imperfectly) the principles of boy-training in the following statements: “Better boys!” should be our slogan. Intelligent training is the birthright of every child. The boy is the mirror of his home. The wayward boy is usually the son of a wayward parent. When we reclaim wayward parents we will reclaim wayward boys. The average parent is either unskilled or underskilled in boy-training. The first step in boy-training is the education of the parent. The intelligent parent is the natural and best teacher of his own child. The busy boy is the best boy. Constant activity is the key to his evolution. Encourage athletics and out-of-door activities for the growing boy. Work _with_ boys, not _for_ them, produces the best results. Get the juvenile viewpoint. Insight and patience are the corner stones of boy-training. Every father can become a hero to his son through chumship. Through play the boy attains a large part of his growth--physical, mental, and moral. Fix the habit of obedience early. Every boy is a gangster at heart. Encourage him to join a good gang instead of a bad one. Never punish him in anger. He has a keen sense of justice. Let the punishment fit the “crime.” The mother’s influence on the child is most potent before puberty--the father’s after puberty. Adolescence is the period of storm and stress in which incongruities of conduct and character are certain to appear. With your patient helpfulness he will outgrow them. Train by positive, helpful suggestion, rather than negative repression. Never prohibit an act without suggesting a substitute to fill the void. Give him your reasons for the change. Environment molds a score, where heredity molds one. Do your part in building up symmetrically all four sides of his nature--physical, mental, moral, and spiritual--and the result will be God’s noblest work--a Man! What profound emotions are stirred in the father’s breast when he realizes that his long years of intelligent training have borne fruit in the son he has sired; and what supreme joy comes to the mother when she beholds her son standing at the threshold of superb manhood and she can truly say, “I mothered a man!” If I have seemed too severe in my strictures of delinquent parents, it is because of a desire, grounded in the necessities of the case, to impress upon them duties and responsibilities which are so frequently neglected. If I have seemed too ardent a champion of the adolescent, I offer no apology but the fact that he is often misunderstood and needs an advocate to present his side of the case at the bar of parental judgment. Happy the man who has a son and thrice happy he who has three! TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.