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'■ TAqE SIX
this’ll’that
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. . ROSEMARY THYME
. Summer is over. The young
sters are back to school again,
mid once more quietness reigns
from 8.45 to 4.30. J think they,
themselves, are mostly glad to be
back, John admitted the day be-
—77jore_schooHopened~that-he-would-
bei ‘‘But I4 didnH feel like that
.. He has had a, variety bf play
mates this summer, and Ij have
/ liad many an pbject lession in
child psychology. I’ve been in-
terested in the tattle-tale, in the
bully, and the ibrag, in the ^ame
.little good sports, the ones jwith
sunny dispositions and the per
petual whiner. And, do you
know? That back of them all,
the brag, the, good sport, the
/ whiner, and all, there are the
parents, and more (particularly
the mother, making them just
What they are . .,. and, more im
portant still, making them what
they will be*..
Beirig a < parent is a terrifying
THU LUCKNOW SENTINEL, JLUCKNQW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23rd,
didn’t run crying to^ mama; hq
shquted with laughter, and then
got his hands on the hose hiim
self if he could. A very satisfac
tory adjustment to the state of
affairs, and one that will take
him a long way in more import* ’
ant things, \ •
At this stage of thteir^lives jt
miay not seem itnportant .that
rnama is always ready to listen ‘ .
to her children’s tale of wbe, and
take their side in childish griev
ances. But it is important. The
child, whose mother comes too •.
actively into the picture in this
■way^-comes—to—be—shunned_Jby—
other children, they refuse to let .
him play-with them,~because ihe.’ll:: —
tell mama when things don’t spit
him, qrid:/she willxcome out with
her hands on her hips, and tell
them off. Actually the normal ‘
child doesn’t want his mother to
do anything about it when things
go wrong and he. tells her. all
about it. He soon learns, how un
popular' if* makes him . . . and he.
may be pedalling up and down
the street alone; for a long time.
A Wise mother listens, because,
after all we like to know these
things, and we may advise opr
uvy iCI.uu.u..s ... u.c ......Sw, „ e.-, ,...... — - child as to his future actions in •
neighborhood is no playmate for young Johnny MeGaw. A game .like ■ circumstances, but, unless, i ■ ° ■■ — ■ ‘ . 1 <>. .• _ ■- • ITn i X ■ I 14 ' i ir. rr ■■i.zanl
i guilty that "John does not care, one turned the hose on him, he I we stay ■ out of it.
responsibility. Xdu aye the one selves , ,, , along, with all the to p|ay with him. But th^re is
who helps your child to build Mp we may g?t/elsewhere. * —.u„. t .bout it
attitudes that resultin success
dr failure, that givehima happy
social life, or lack of assurance,
doubts, fears and uncertainties.
Many of us are. too busy to see
just what we are doing, many of
us are too blind, or too compla-
cent. Few of us try to understand
as we should. All of us make ex
cuses for ourselves,. We can. see
the mistakes others make, but it
is honestly hard to see where* we
err ourselves.
It is always a ticklish business,
writing^ of . child, psychologyJ_
read articles and VI say to my-:
self, “That person hasno child*
ren?-i:> ♦ that’^f^sure’’.Pebble
whoknow > me / will say, “Huh,
why doesn’t she take that, to her
self . I’m Sure her John . . .
and so on. I have one. child, and
I ‘was constantly reminded this
summer that I could know no
thing qf the problems Of raising
more than one. " As I say, it is
a ticklish subject; You know what
they say about the Onlooker and ;
the game. We can learn a great
deal from observation^ . . but
we. have to have sense to-apply it,
ourselves. It is. certainly some
thing, this being a parent, that
we have to work out for our-
nothing that I can doabout it,
’• , . that. I can, see* at.any rate.
I really 'don’t biome him! Earl
is the most complacent 7-year-
old I iever saw. Twenty minutes
of him around, and I am seeing
black spots before my eyes.* Most
children can talk a steady stream
each sentence beginning < with
“Why?’-. “How?” or “What’”JEarl
can out-question any child I ever
saw . . ,, the difference is that he
already knows all the answers.
His vocabulary might compare
favorablywith any adult’s; his
assurance is startling • . • the re-
suit of being, too ; much alone,
with? Wul^
play. he is . a 2-year-old . . - runs
crying to mama; on the slightest
provocation. Unfortunately, ma"-
ma isno help in overcoming this
tendency. Consequently, he spends
most of his time pedalling up
and down the street alone. His
mother suggests apologetically
that heis too young for John
and his friends; he is too old for
the other children around./ It
isn’t a matter of age; across the
street" all summer was a boy -of
I yememb^r asking a frjepd*
! whom • I considered was. piakihg
a fine job of bringing up her. fam
ily, how she did it. John was very
small, and I wanted tp make a
fine job of bringing .him up too,
and was ready to hear how it
might be done. “Just love him”,
she said, Apparently she figured,
if you loved them, you ‘ Would
always act with wisdpm, But it,
isn’t enough. She is almost com
pletely estranged from one dau-
ghter.andtheotherdaughteris.
a -thoroughly ' selfish; ' spoiled;
grown-up’ ibrat. - Somewhere, just
'loving. them must have? .slipped
up. Loving them is most .neces
sary, but it must cover discipline
and understanding . .. . . among
ether things. One would think
that this; 'particular mother must
have expended too muclj, lpve and
not enough discipline on the
spoiled daughter, and on the
other neither enough love nor
understanding. ’
I said at the' beginning that
John had had a variety of play
mates this summer, but. the only not more than 4 or 5, and our
boy remaining in the immediate/John got a great^ kick out of
him at alL Sometimes I feel ’ young tyke, for sure. When .some? I it is something really important,
guilty that "John does not care, one turned the hose on him, he I we stay * out of it.
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