PARENTAL FALSEHOODS.
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A writer in tho Literary Gszstie in noticing
Mrs. Opie's IllUs!rsti.rs al Lyrs " has the fol-
lowing remarks, which We recommend to The atten-
tion Of parents -


Thete is one class Of lies. which are little
surprised did not airact . larger share Of Mrs.
Opies attention; lies told by parentst 10 their chill
dren. We believe that the slight regard in which
strict truth is held among mankind. is principally
owing to the lies which arc told 10 children BY their
parents during the lew FIRST years OF their lives


hen is the time that permanent impressions :aay
re as well made as any later period. 1t is them
probably, that what is called the natural propensity
OF child is unfoIced. Many persons rho haze
great abhorrencs Of lying, and Whip their children


they detect them in 1t. yet make no scrupfe of tel
iing and acting to them the most atrocious false
hoods. There ave few parents who do not do this
in greater lesser degree, though doubtless with
out dreaming they are guilty of criminal deception.
With many the whole business OF managing their
children is piece OF mere ar6ce and trick. They
are cheated in their amusements, cheated 10 their
ood, cheated in their dress Lies are told them 10
get them to do any thing which is disagreeable. II
a child is to axe physc, the mother tells him she
has something good for him to drink; if recusan,,
she says she will send for the doctor to cut off his
ears or pull his teeth, that she will go away snd
leave him, and thousand things OF the same kind,
each Of which may deceive once and answer the
present purpose, but will invariably fail afterwards.
Parents are too apt to endeavor to pacify their
children BY making promises that they never intend
to perform. II they wish, for instance to take away
some ea,abe which they fear will be injurious, they
reconcile them by the promise of ride. or walk,
or something else which will please them, but with
OUT any intention OF gratifying them.


This is lying. downright lying. People think
nothing of breaking their promises to children, ii
the performance be not perfectly convenient But
they are the las, persons to whom promises should
be broken, because they cannet comprehend the
reason, if there be one, why they are not kept.
Such promises should be scrupulously redeemed,
though at q great Inconvenience, and even when in
adver,en,ly made. For The chiid's moral habit is
of infinitely more consequence than such an incon
venience can be TO parent.


We have only noticed few Of The eases Of lying