CHAPTER VI.
REWARDING OBEDIENCE.
The mode of action described in the last two chapters for training children to habits of obedience consisted in discouraging disobedience by connecting some certain, though mild and gentle disadvantage, inconvenience, or penalty, with every transgression.

In this chapter is to be considered another mode, which is in some respects the converse of the first, inasmuch as it consists in the encouragement of obedience, by often--not necessarily always--connecting with it some advantage, or gain, or pleasure; or, as it may be stated summarily, the cautious encouragement of obedience by rewards.
This method of action is more difficult than the other in the sense that it requires more skill, tact, and delicacy of perception and discrimination to carry it successfully into effect.

The other demands only firm, but gentle and steady persistence.

If the penalty, however slight it may be, _always comes,_ the effect will take care of itself.

But judiciously to administer a system of rewards, or even of commendations, requires tact, discrimination, and skill.