of his books for a few minutes serves as a great boost to the child's confidence and efforts to do well in the school. A word of compliment costs nothing but would save a good deal of costs if the child. so complimented, completed his studies sooner and with higher ranks.

There will continue to be TV programmes. if that is the lasting interest of the father, when he is old and cared for by the son when adult. The son will have become financially fairly settled, through good education, to facilitate this leisure for his father.

If the importance of inspection of the school books of the child can be appreciated so should the importance of investigation of the buddies (close friends) of the child. The importance of the two is linked for a successful completion of the child's education.

It is the bad buddies more than the good ones who can cast a greater influence on the child. Their companionship serves as a source of encouragement or prodding for all that, which is restrained or restricted by the parents; it is therefore, attractive to the child. The examples are an unbridled liberty of movement and loafing about, truancy, relaxation in the discipline, unruly "group behaviour" in the streets and other public places, and. worse still, immoral inclination.

What is even more attractive to that child who is well under disciplinary control at home and apparently worthy of the parents' trust is the sense of sharing secrets among the friends and loyalty to each other with regard to their secrets of misbehaviour outside home.

Collective Adventurism.
In fact, children are tempted to misbehave among their friends out of collective adventurism for its sake. The adventure of sailing across the previously unchartered waters of the excitement of permissiveness in a group. all urging one another to paddle on, is the greater pull than the products of the adventure. And yet the products can include serious addictions which hook some of the children to ruin their prospects for good education and ethics.

It is such an alluring spectrum of friendship which poses the risk of the child's obedience to his parents to become eroded and subordinated or tampered by his collective loyalty with other children to their peers among the friends.

The child may be uncomfortably unwell or indisposed. He would however not reveal his state of health to his parents for fear of being grounded at home and missing seeing his friends; or he would still slip out to meet them against the instruction of the parents which was to take rest. Parents should have a cause for concern and begin a discreet investigation if the child's attachment and loyalty to his group of friends are disproportionately this much excessive.