Show j i i Today's Child Has Better fetter Chance Says u J's J- J s 's t ty y b w J i r rl l Mrs S. S M M. M N N. N Marrs new president pr sj r dent of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers Teachers' New Teachers Parent-Teachers Head Praises A Awakened Awakened Awak wak- wakened ened Parents CLEVELAND O. O The NEA-The The growing child is get getting tins more attention attention attention atten atten- tion and better tr training nin now than ever before in all history according to Mrs firs S. S M. M N N. Marrs newly elected president of the National Congress of 01 Parents and Teachers winch which held heid its annual convention here The result is Js IS that Mrs IrS Marrs looks on the future with optimism The great greatest st force for child welfare welfare welfare wel wel- fare today is an awakened parenthood parenthood parenthood parent parent- hood she says We Ve have it Training the child is the parents parent's most important job I We hear much about things s heng being be he- ing ng bad and about th the children go going going going go- go ing to the Wo boty-Wo wows bow but there re renever the never was a time In the t history of the world when interest was so focused on the child The church churchil is il coming back to work with chil- chil schools schools' schools have have mat in- in d dren Sunday creased And look 1001 at the child welfare welfare Notice how they have ve developed agencies in the past 25 or 01 3 30 The schools are spending years than money more they ever have in the Uie history of the country countr PARENTS ARE AWAKE In our educated I parenthood tale people are learning more about the schools than they fiver ver knew b before fore eve also learning learnt more about They are stressing childhood They are stressing re recreation recreation re- re creation and paying more ore attention to leisure time teaching children the use of libraries 1 and wholesome play play The prosperity rity of the country makes possible more more leisure Take the question of the preschool preschool pre pre- school child and the problem that the Ue mother of 4 q child o of six or un under un- un must e solve Our school pre der ta work is an education step for fo- parents parents par par- emits which helps the mother to handle bande the physical and mental problems of that age This pres pre- pre s school hool age has has been known n for fory the ne neglected age e. as years ars mid y The next big 1 problem Is the adolescent child In the time past pant this not considered a problem It Jt was w was never studied before as i it u is now One has to le learn t rn to o be he gentie gen- gen HP tie poly nOw and and amid understanding with the child child in this difficult e age for f if parents are not all of these things s at this very important time they lose the th confidence or of their chil chil- dren If It however the school pre-school age has been properly cared for fot forone forone one does not feel so much fear for forthe forthe forthe the adolescent Mrs Marrs a former school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher of Denton Tex is the wife of or the state superintendent ol of public instruction In in Texas Her new office makes her spokesman for parents and teachers |