How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

second comprises pampering, spoiling, over-tenderness, over-solicitude, over-protection and the murderous misuse of love. The third comprises authoritarianism, patri- archalism, nagging, perfectionism, personal vanity, and ambition. The child who is the victim of any one or more of these false emotional attitudes on the part of his parents or teachers is destined to find difficulties in that most important task of all human life : social adjustment. The hated child, who never experiences the warmth of mother love, remains an enemy of the society which he has never understood. We find him, in later life, a criminal, a pervert, a trouble-maker, and always an isolated outcast. The pampered and spoiled child who has experienced too much mother-love, who has learned to make the social bridge only to his mother, and found complete emotional satisfaction in her, feels no urge to extend the circle of his social interest, and remains attached to his mother by a parasitic relationship. Often when he is faced with the problems of social adjustment, either in the family, in his school, or in his business life, he feels that he has been betrayed by his mother. A great many of the college suicides are found among dependent, spoiled children who declare their mental bankruptcy, and by giving up the struggle for life, neatly lay the blame where it usually belongs, at their parents* door. Or the pampered child may become a pleasure- loving parasite who expects the world to bring him his living on a silver platter. Again he may remain a helplessly timid and incapable adult always looking for something on which to support his languishing soul. Another type of spoiled child becomes a sexual athlete and spends his days attempting to recapture the lost paradise of childhood by being completely spoiled by some member of the other sex. The child of parents who believe that children should be seen and not heard, of parents who impose a harsh authoritarian education upon him, is likely to be an inconsolable rebel against authority, or in those sad cases