Children may be greatly indulged, and yet perfectly governed.

On the other hand, they may be continually checked and thwarted, and their lives made miserable by a continued succession of vexations, restrictions, and refusals, and yet not be governed at all.

An example will, however, best illustrate this.
_Mode of Management with Louisa_.
A mother, going to the village by a path across the fields, proposed to her little daughter Louisa to go with her for a walk.
Louisa asked if she might invite her Cousin Mary to go too.

"Yes," said her mother; "I _think_ she is not at home; but you can go and see, if you like." Louisa went to see, and returned in a few minutes, saying that Mary was _not_ at home.
"Never mind," replied her mother; "it was polite in you to wish to invite her." They set out upon the walk.

Louisa runs hither and thither over the grass, returning continually to her mother to bring her flowers and curiosities.
Her mother looks at them all, seems to approve of, and to sympathize in, Louisa's wonder and delight, and even points out new charms in the objects which she brings to her, that Louisa had not observed.
At length Louisa spied a butterfly.
"Mother," said she, "here's a butterfly.