Show Modern Home Fails in Mission of Training Y Youth for Independence By RA RABBI DI BARNETT R BRICKNER Cleveland RENTS ARENTS A who expect to mold the destiny of ol their children as it if PD P PARENTS they were wax was or clay are doomed to failure The function of the parent is to rear the tho child so that he can take tako intelligent charge of his own life and be an nn independent personality Some parents are dictators others are simply errand boys for their children Tl c more I see of modern homes and parents the more I marvel that so many children do as well as they do The correct attitude toward time the child is to regard him like a seed that grows whose physical nature and temperament are set at birth Heredity plays as important but not nota nota a dominant role in the life of the child Parents contribute 50 per cent of what he 13 is Half of the remainder he owes to his grandparents The children of today are arc independent and nothing can keep them from being so And the best thing that parents can do is to train chil chil- children children children dren for independence so that they may be self controlled and self gov The reason parents do not in influence their children religiously is be- be because because be because cause their home has lias ceased to be a spiritual place Most parents are either negative or formal in their relation to religion Yet the child will reed religion to help him over oyer the frustrations of life What our young people need today is a little less intellectual con con- conscience conscience con conscience science anda and a little more moral conscience In the last analysis it is the home that plays the most important role in in influencing the character of the child The chief business of a n home Lome is to make fine tastes contagious |