Show YOUR YOURi CHILDREN fy Olive l ire t Bar Barlo- Barlo ii fan i 1928 1028 by NEA KEA DO Dont Don't be too quick to I call caU your child a a. bad girl or a bad toad bo boy It may not mean very much to you ou but it mean means a whole lot to them If It a child Is told over ver and OV over r that he is is a bad boy slowly but surely he will be set ap apart rt as something something some- some thing thins unfit Jn n his own Imagination Then watch out Once a child gets the Idea t that at athe he is that bewilderingly different Using thins bad he is likely to get set a I mental kink kinly something like Jike this Im bad I dont don't know exactly what that means but I must must be different from nice p people ople As no nobody nobody nobody no- no body expects me to do goo good l things It doesn't matter much how I l I act If It a boy gets that into his head be sure he will live up to his tation EXPERIMENTS AND IMPULSES A boy is not a bad boy Mischief 1 Is lar largely ly exp experimental rim nt l. l And what boy is js not that A bo boy with a ball wonders if he can bat it across a certain lot He lIe He-doesn't He doesn't see the plate glass wl window V dp directly py opposite that is he doesn't see It with his mind As far as his thoughts go the window isn't there thereat at all Crash The window vl dow is g gone ne With experiment Is mixed im im- pulse A boy sees sees some wet ce ce- ce ment Some driving force he cannot cannot cannot can can- not explain prompts him to set his foot on Its soft surface He Ho is in instantly instantly in- in stancy contrite What on on earth made him do such sucha a a thins thing He acted first and thought afterwards Ho lIo could have recited a whole page on good citizenship a minute after his vandalism Vh Why couldn't he have thought be before ore about the tiro rights o of others and respecting peoples people's property Too late now He lIe Is as surprised at himself as others are at him But with this difference They are indignant He Is in varying degrees dE ashamed But will he admit it Not he He laughs and puts on bravado and says he did it on purpose EMOTIONS SWAY THEM r 1 Boys Bos are are more snore impulsive as a arule y rule than girls But acting first and Ind thinking after Is characteristic tic ic snore more or 01 less of ot all children Suppose they do things asre- asre as re results re suits of ot emotions such as anger Jealousy hatred or contempt I Does DoCS oeS that hat brand them as bad Arou Are Ar jou sou ou yourselves ourselves never swayed by such emotions Be Because LUse you talus tale out your our roger anger in berating an enemy by bywords bywords words instead of punching him In a the eye like lile Johnny does do you think you are bad Children are elemental They are motivated not by dyed deep villainous intent but by pure animal animal animal ani ani- mal Impulse usually I Be careful of that word bad |