If you want your gray hairs dishonored by a spoiled and ruined son, adopt the following directions:
1. Let him have plenty of spending money.
2. Permit him to choose his own companions without restraint or direction.
3. Give him a latch key, and allow him to return home late in the evenings.
4. Make no inquiries as to where and with whom he spends
5. Give him to understand that manners make a good substitute for morality.
6. Teach him to expect pay for every act of helpfulness to others.
7. Allow him to occupy a seat in church with the boys rather than the pew with his parents.
8. Permit him to regard the Sunday school unsuitable for a boy on the verge of young manhood.