Show ABOUT PUSHING CHILDREN Everything good is marked by a certain ce ain restraint a curbing of pride a reserve of power this is IS essen essential essential essential to best results whether it be in painting a picture running an I auto bringing up a child or what not It is natural for the fond parent to take delight in the achieve achievements 0 1 ments of his child but the wise parent will take care that the gratification gratification gratification of his own pride does not operate to injure the child In InI Ij I r j other words the welfare of the child should be the flue first consideration But how often we find it the other way How Haw often we see the 1 I I Ir finest child mi minds ds sacrificed on the altar of parental vanity In n every overy r community there are examples of children who have been injured or orrl ruined rl by pushing and if the truth were known there are arc proba probably probably Probably bly thousands of others whose whole life has bas been stunted in this way i but whose shortcomings are attrib attributed to other causes 7 I t t There is no such hurry h Y Yi that the children should be made victims I i i I i of education It is a very common thing to make a child skip a grade II in school in order to gain a year but what is a year so gained in I 1 j relation to a whole life I e Very V cry often the gain is only apparent and in inthe inI i I the end there is a loss Children who are not allowed to begin school I II I till they are seven or eight years old usually pass those who have I i 1 started in at too tender an age 1 Of course we cant unmake conditions There are arc in almost 1 I ll every overy community more children than can be bo well taught in the I I schools The result is that the schools have to rush the pupils through 1 I just as rapidly as possible Keep them moving is the rule rulo there is a a 1 I constant pressure on the child from the lowest grade to the highest l 1 i The worst of it U is that it is apt to be the bright children that are I injured most by this pushing A I process heavy wagon will carry an I G t 1 overload that would wreck a light one and a dull mind will receive 1 no harm from a course of that t r might ruin a more finely t organized one The Tho human mind is like a tool to be II Ir i used but used with intelligence nce and not abused f This truth becomes daily dally more important for life in this il l century is already keyed f 1 up dangerously high The statistics of sui siti suicide suit t I cide insanity ins heart disease nervous di diseases senses and all those human j defects which are traceable largely to high tension living ng should d be a t I warning to every everyone one of us to go g o slow Theres a limit to what we ti e l 1 can do at best and it is not wise to encroach too loo closely on that limit r j r better leave a good margin of safety I |