Each child should be a rule unto himself. Do not encourage or strive
for uniformity of desire or result in your children. Let them reveal
those distinctive characteristics with which they are endowed and then
encourage and assist them in their development.
A child will excel in some things and possibly be deficient in others.
He will naturally wish to play most often that game in which he does
best. Do not deny this game, but use it as a reward, when the child
does well the thing he most needs. Use the promise to play it as an
inducement to get him to do the more necessary or difficult exercise
first.
Even in cases where the children are old enough to use these books
themselves, parents should keep an oversight of the games used, to
see that all of their senses, and especially the eye and the ear, are
developed.
An all around development is most necessary. When parents join the game
let it be an opportunity to introduce and encourage the most needed
exercises.
=Training the senses will result in greater ability in all mental
operations throughout life.=
=A few moments' daily use of the games and exercises in these
books will attain the result.=
There is one principal instruction, that is--MAKE AN EFFORT--TRY.
Then persist, try again, let failure spur you to greater effort. Only
he who continues to try, after others have tried and given up, will win
the prize of success.