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The Care of Those Who are Physically Disabled

The care and training of a perfectly strong child os a serious matter, though fortunately the task is so lightened bu parental love that its full seriousness is rarely left except in discouraged moments; but when the child is handicapped by some physical ailment or disability, the task becomes even harder. Then the rules and systematic care which are perfectly satisfactory for a healthy child have to be notified , perhaps thrown aside, and other methods of management substituted . Sometimes the changes have to be made not only in opposition to well-grounded practical methods of rearing children, but also directly across the grain of our [?] conviction of what is right for children to do or be. No intelligent parent doubts for a moment where his duty is in such cases, for the supremest duty for him is to develop and guard his child, regardless of rule, convictions or personal discomfort. The child os the vital part of the problem, and the prescribed key cannot always be relied on to find the requisite solution.

in the case of young children, changes in regimen are oftener made in mental; and moral training then in the physical. Parents and teachers are more apt to appreciate that the preventive ounce of tact, consideration, or sympathy before the mental or moral nature has been warped out of its healthful groove fat outweighs in its resultnthe curative pound. That there should be the same careful prevention of physical ills in a child no one will deny, but the trouble is that few realize just when prevention should begin, and how long and steadily it should be continues. Too often ailments or weaknesses are allowed to run without any conception of their destroying power as a child is not decidedly ill. The slight deviations from health are not noted, and the idea that something serious portends is not dreamed of - Harpers Bazar.