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Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

CHAPTER VI
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When I had finished my shopping, I thought I would buy you some bonbons, and here they are.

You can go and sit down together on the carpet and divide them.

Mary can choose one, and then Jane; then Mary, and then Jane again; and so on until they are all chosen." _Difference in the Character of the Effects_.
It may, perhaps, be said by the reader that this is substantially the same as giving a direct reward for the obedience.

I admit that it is in some sense _substantially_ the same thing, but it is not the same in form.

And this is one of those cases where the effect is modified very greatly by the form.


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