This is a fact which you must keep in mind throughout all your efforts in child training. Whenever possible make the exercises into games and make them interesting. Do not work so long with one idea that it becomes tiresome or tedious to the child. Add anything that suggests itself to you that will give variety. When the child seems to be losing interest or paying only partial attention, vary the game or change to some other. In all the exercises it is helpful to note the results and keep careful watch of the progress made. Have competitive trials and championship records; always keep some incentive for further effort before him. Encourage Individualism Each child should be a rule unto himself. Do not encourage or strive for uniformity of desire or result in your children. Let them reveal those distinctive characteristics with which they are endowed and then encourage and assist them in their development. A child will excel in some things and possibly be deficient in others. He will naturally wish to play most often that game in which he does best. Do not deny this game, but use it as a reward, when the child does well the thing he most needs. Use the promise to play it as an inducement to get him to do the more necessary or difficult exercise first. Even in cases where the children are old enough to use these books themselves, parents should keep an oversight of the games used, to see that all of their senses, and especially the eye and the ear, are developed. An all around development is most necessary. When parents join the game let it be an opportunity to introduce and encourage the most needed exercises. =Training the senses will result in greater ability in all mental operations throughout life.= =A few moments' daily use of the games and exercises in these books will attain the result.= There is one principal instruction, that is--MAKE AN EFFORT--TRY. Then persist, try again, let failure spur you to greater effort. Only he who continues to try, after others have tried and given up, will win the prize of success. TO DEVELOP THE SENSE OF TOUCH The child should be taught to determine the degree of smoothness, size, shape, quality (of cloth), and many other things of value by touch. You can give an experienced dry goods clerk a piece of cloth and he can tell without looking at it what kind it is, and about what grade. This is entirely a matter of development upon the part of the clerk. When he began this work he could not tell muslin from long-cloth.