Show I i 1 rH i Je I r H K H I Home Education I The rhe Childs Child's First School is Froebel the Family Famil SELF RELIANCE CE IlIa 11 ilia illa M Pinnell e t r e H H I When I was 8 a small child re remarked remarked remarked matter what hat marked my friend no Ino I was ac tr trying to do there was always come ome member of the family ready to say Here you ou ou cant can't do lo that let medo me medo medo do it for vou ou I was its seldom allowed ed to complete an anything I commenced nor was as I encouraged to do for my myself myself myself self man many in any an anway way wiy y If I an outsider asked I my name or how ho old I was as someone some someone someone one of the others an answered ered the ques question question bon tion foi fot me Though they Imagined the they were doing dorng me a kindness it was wasa wasa as asa a great geat injury Del Being i naturally at rall n a timid child and the youngest oung t in m the family I believed ed implicitly what hat my elders ciders told me And hearing so o o often ten that I couldn't do this 01 or that I came to believe that I couldn t An attempt on my part was as met with good natured ridi radl ridicule cule and I dreaded the laugh as much muchas muchas muchas as if lf it had been prompted by ill will willI I began to believe myself inferior to othet othel children this made me awk awkard awkward ward ard self conscious and shy As I grew older this feeling increased To Toha ha have hae e attention called to myself in any anyway anyway way ay was as positive agony agon I wanted to keep in m the background I was m in dined to be studious and could easIly have beben fist fust fil st in m my class had not notI my extreme shyness pl presented lt it I IIo e eer er as many of our examina examinations examinations were written I was as able to mike creditable grades But it was not until I began teaching that I found myself so to speak and it lt was as then that I resolved that e even en though my pupils learned little else I would teach te them to have faith in I es What others can do I can doa do a was our school slogan I III especially remember one of my pupils a child of seven That wm win winter winter ter teras was as his fist filst term of s school hool An only child he had been waited on and cared for foi until he had seemingly lost all desire to do for himself On 1 arrival 1 at school his cap and over overcoat overcoat overcoat coat must be taken off On leaving school and at recess 1 these artIcles must again agam be put on for him Jars Jan ey would lift his hl rosy losy face to have the I cap drawn n on his head but never ne put up a hand to h help lp himself The little I a neighbor who ho was as his cal care caretaker e taker anticipated his evel every y move movement movement meat ment I III at once decided that the bo must have a chance outside of class to help himself The opportunity ca came me unexpectedly une One morning aftel after he had been attending school for about a week eek Iv I v as busy heal hearing healing a recitation recitation hon tion when hen suddenly Jarvey came stumping up to me his brows bro drawn n together and his flee face puckered ed m in concern II Teacher he said sard as he stuck out his foot my Imy shoe lice lace is lS untied an she aint amt here hel e to tie it I Sure Suie enough she a few minutes pI previously had een cen gl given glen en permission pel to go o to the for a book and andin andin m in her hei absence this catastrophe had befallen her small charge U our lorn shoe lace is lS untIed 9 Well Vell l Jarvey I said cheerfully fully sit right light do down n and tie is lS upI up I the subdued titters which were el e quickly stilled by an admonitory shake of m my heal head Jal Jarvey Jaley ey dropped to the foot and began struggling wIth the refractory shoe shoelace ace while h ent henton on with the recitation A few two mo moments ments aftel afterward al d thel there e was a tug tomy to my mv elbo elbow and Jan Jarvey ey his eyes alight wIth tI triumph pointed proudly do down don doat n at the tied hed lace II Fine applauded I I II knew you ou could do It its if That said saad my friend was as the beginning of Jarvey's Jal eys ey's emancipation Flom that time on whether hether at home at school or abroad he did things for fOl hImself From Flom a listless dependent chIld he developed into a sturdy brIght eyed youngster witha with ltha a confidence confidence dense dence in m himself which nothing seem seemed seemed ed bale to shake And Iam I am proud to say concluded mv my friend I that Jar Jal Jarvey vey attI attributes much of his success m in inthe inthe the business world orld of today to that lIttle incident in m the county countI school schoolhouse schoolhouse schoolhouse house his first lesson in m Notice This and kindred kindled subjects aye ale really leally very elY much worthwhile worth while Dont Don't miss the al article by Emma Gal Gat V Wallace Resourcefulness r |