Show ON THE RAISING OF F CHILDREN HE UTAH MOTHERS congress which has hes Just adjourned Rafter after several interesting Interesting sessions discussed the question tolt ae to whether hether or not par parents eats should ft allow show their children to for tOr themselves as to t whether whether i they should s or should uld not do a certain thing g No formal vote was w S taken ta en bUt bUta a considerable con affirmative showing was made New Now it maybe m y somewhat t late for The Th Herald Heral to venture wre an opinion opinIon ion but we e believe tits tire subject t is in interesting Interesting tere and some comment will be timely It is manifestly impossible Impo in view of the very nature of the boy bay or girl to lay Jay down a 8 hard bard ha d and fast rule by which alt all of them may be governed Train up a 8 child in the way he be should go and when he is old he will not de depart depert depart part pert from it said Solomon Very easy advice to give too but b t very ery hard to follow The q e tt n Is How shall abaft s the child be trained up upA up upA upA A rule that works to oo a nicety in the theca case ca e of one child will win fall far utterly in inthe Inthe inthe the cast case of another even evenin n the Ute same family Some children thrive th ive 4 hest st t un ten under under tender der sound bodily b aUY chastisement Be t others must not be whipped at aIL all The souse sense of right and aDd Wrong tg M very V ry acute in n some some children in others it must must be forcibly aroused And ADd there fc W i hardly bardl a one of us ue that positive we we could raise rakle the children of el other bt er people very much rauch more advantageously than their parents parts are rail sing them m This is par particularly p r tic true of oba bachelors bachelors and spinsters spin spinsters Mers At the Mothers Mot congress the th theory th r was advanced that th t mothers and fathers should remain more in the background that they should give their boys and girls giris the opportunity to work out their own destinies This seems a very dangerous sort of or policy Children all children child reI need the very firmest kind of oversight Firmness mean sternness it t does mean impressing impre the with the under understanding understanding standing that the parents parent p rentS wishes must always be consulted consult The worst misfortune that can befall be befall befalls fall falls a child is 18 for it te be allowed to todo todo todo do exactly as it pleases ses The unrestrained unrestrained unrestrained strained child is almost almo t inevitably fa Ji spoiled child and sooner or r later that child is destined to a rude awakening Children should not be allowed to be believe believe beHove lieve Hove that the world is theirs that ethers others have no DO rights they are bound to t respect that t they they may obey or dis disobey disObey disobey obey as as s suits them best beet But after alter all this is wasting words In the last test analysis every parent will do as he be or she individually thinks best and aDd every everyone one of them thorn will m be believe lieve that bin or her children ate are ate so far ahead head of everybody children that comparisons are impossible |