The true instinct of children and the sensitiveness of youth detect very quickly and resent a professional tone; a child looks for freedom and simplicity, and feels cramped if it meets with something even a little artificial.

Children like to find _real people_, not anxiously careful to improve them, but able to take life with a certain spontaneity as they like to take it themselves.

They are frightened by those who take themselves too seriously, who are too acute, too convincing or too brilliant; they do not like people who appear to be always on the alert, nor those of extreme temperatures, very ardent or very frigid.

The people whom they like and trust are usually quiet, simple people, who have not startling ways, and do not manifest those strenuous ideals which destroy all sense of leisure in life.
Not only little children but those who are growing up resent these mannerisms and professional ways.

They, too, ask for a certain spontaneity and like to find a _real person_ whom they can understand.
Abstract principles do not appeal to them, but they can understand and appreciate character, not in one type and pattern alone, for every character that has life and truth commands their respect and is acceptable in one way if not in another.