HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-05-06, Page 14THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1971
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I am a fan of those columns in
newspapers where the readers
write in with their personal prob-
lems and the columnist attempts
to answer with the solutions.
Don't get me wrong. I don't
want any readers I may have to si(
down and pour out their troubles
to me in the hope that I will be
able to set them straight. That's
just not my cup of tea. But I
do enjoy reading those literary
pieces if for no other reason than.
to discover how many problems
others have that I don't.
Every once in a long while
someone will write in with a
problem which could very easily
involve me... and this week I
read one somewhere from a gal
who said she'd visited at a friend's
home for an evening of cards and
had been serenaded all evening
long with drum solos one after
the other, kids arguing, a guitar
and ampliphier turned up to the
topmost and a stereo belching
acid rock.
The reader went on to complair
that her hostess seemed to he
deaf to the racket and made no
move to tone down the din in the
background.
The entire scene seemed so
much like theatmosphere at our
house that I began to reread the
article time and time again to
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distinguish some clue which
would tell me which one of my
friend's had written it about our
house.
I was even more perturbed by
the columnist's answer. She ad-
vised that her reader should have
left and told the hostess to invite
her back again another time...
after the children were all mar-
ried!
ar-
ried!
I suppose it is difficult for most
people to understand the reason-
ing behind allowing your child-
ren to live as they please (with-
in limites, of course) even at
home. And I would agree that
it is in extremely bad taste for
a host or hostess to submit guests
to all the turmoil and strife
which normally prevails in the
household.
But I'm a firm believer in en-
couraging your children to come
home and bring their friends
home with them. And I know
that if you are going to make a
success of this kind of thing, you
have to be prepared to accept
their company ANYTIME... even
at the most inopportune moments.
That's just the way it is, pal.
It has often seemed to me that
my kids choose to entertain at
the precise moment that I do.
How many times have I invited
guests for dinner only to discover
that my children have also made
tentative plans to ask their
friends to eat dinner with us?
(continued on page 15)
tend to stay on welfare longer
now and that the only thing the
county welfare program has done
for him is to get people off his
back.
Although the executive com-
mittee did try to obtain inform-
ation from each clerk and treas-
urer regarding the administrative
costs for welfare in the various
municipalities in Huron, from
the information received it was
almost impossible to give an
accurate picture.
Committee chairman, Gordon
Hess said the reports showed that
welfare costs were anywhere from
$10,000 in one municipality
to nil in other municipalities.
Following the successful vote
for county welfare, Hess gained
support for his motion to appoint
a committee to make a study of
needed tax reform in Huron.
Reeve Allan Campbell asked
how the committee would be
selected but Hess informed him
that method had not been laid
down in his motion and would
depend on the decision of counc-
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(Maybe it is because the kids
know we'll have something
rather special on the menu that
evening, I don't know).
After appraising the situation
from a non -hysterical vantage
point, I've found that I seldom
advise my children in advance of
my plans, so how in the world
could I expect them to know
what's going on in any certain
day. Furthermore, I've discovered
that it needn't be such a calamity
I simply entertain our guests in
the dining room while my kids
have their friends in the kitchen
or in the familyroom or on the
patio. Who really cares how
many dining areas there are as
long as everyone gets fed?
That's the reason we have
found a large house the only
answer to our dilemma - raising
three children of varied ages
and teaching them our approval
of using their home as much of
the time as possible for whatever
activity they may select.
It gets bothersome at times..
but we've learned that if you
shut the doors between the living -
room and the dining room and
between the diningroom and the
kitchen and between the kitchen
and the familyroom, you can
watch television quite easily in
the livingroom, have a 4- 1-1 con -
nab in the diningroom, a colorinf
bee in the kitchen and a rock
session in the familyroom. Nat-
urally there is some din seeping
through the walls, hut if you set
your minds to it the whole affair
can work quite satisfactorily.
I have no patience with guests
who come to our house and ex-
pect everything to be the same
as they left it at their house.
Each hone is different and I
fully expect my friends to adapt
to our customs when they visit
with us just as I would understand
the differences in their way of
life while visiting them. And I
would strongly urge my guests
to either accept things as they
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are... or leave permanently. It
won't do any good to return in 20
years because who knows? By that
time I may have taken up the
banjo and who wants to listen to
that all evening long?
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