That was only a beginning--a _right_ beginning, it is true, but still only a beginning.

It produced in him a cordial willingness to do right, in one instance.

That is a great thing, but it is, after all, only one single step.

The work is not complete until a _habit_ of doing right is formed, which is another thing altogether, and requires special and continual measures directed to this particular end.
Children have to be _trained_ in the way they should go--not merely shown the way, and induced to make a beginning of entering it.

We will now try to show how the influence of commendation and encouragement may be brought into action in this more essential part of the process.
_Habit to be Formed_.
Having taken the first step already described, Georgie's mother finds some proper opportunity, when she can have the undisturbed and undivided attention of her boy--perhaps at night, after he has gone to his crib or his trundle-bed, and just before she leaves him; or, perhaps, at some time while she is at work, and he is sitting by her side, with his mind calm, quiet, and unoccupied.
"Georgie," she says, "I have a plan to propose to you." Georgie is eager to know what it is.
"You know how pleased I was when you came in so still to-day." Georgie remembers it very well.
"It is very curious," continued his mother, "that there is a great difference between grown people and children about noise.