It is not always possible to do this.

The efficiency of the punishment is, of course, the essential thing; but parents and teachers who turn their attention to the point will find that it is much less difficult than one would suppose to secure this end completely without producing the too frequent accompaniments of punishment--anger, ill-temper, and ill-will.
[Illustration: "IT IS NOT SAFE"] In the case, for example, of the child not allowed to go out into the yard, but required to remain in the house in sight of his mother, the mother should not try to make the punishment _more heavy_ by speaking again and again of his fault, and evincing her displeasure by trying to make the confinement as irksome to the child as possible; but, on the other hand, should do all in her power to alleviate it.

"I am very sorry," she might say, "to have to keep you in the house.

It would be much pleasanter for you to go out and play in the yard, if it was only safe.

I don't blame you very much for running away.