Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-07 | Page 26 | Better Citizenship Training Seen as Duty of Parents

r TELEGRAM Better Citizenship T Training r ining II Seen as as Duty of Parents By ADELAIDE S. S BAYLOR Secretary National Council of Edu u Edu- I cation W WASHINGTON AP The AP-The The fact that more than 2000 voluntary vo organizations or organizations organizations or- or in the United States are arc working to develop better citizenship citizenship citi citi- Is evidence nce that somewhere re a a. a cog has slipped In the training of our youth in the ideals and practices practices tices ices we wo hold as essential to successful successful suc- suc citizenship Among the great influences that determine th the character of of development development development develop develop- ment in citizenship It Is safe to say sar that hat the home Is the most outstanding out out- standing The modern ps psychologist holds that that hat the Influences that operate on the he child in Its Us early years have probably given a permanent set to tots its ts character and disposition by the time ime it is 15 of preschool age 2 to C G years old One writer declares dee that most of or the fears and minor mental twists and quirks 8 that we I observe among our friends and ac acquaintances acquaintances acquaintances ac- ac and that mal make e humankind human- human kind cind so hard to get along with have been traced raced back hack to single or re related repeated re re- childhood impressions Impressions-at at athe the he latest before the age of 6 years years An authority on the training of children states that the study of ot normal as v well ell as of or abnormal psychology psychology psychology shows that the earlier a achild achild child makes its social contacts and I feels itself an integral part of a community the easier d does es its ad- ad x f 4 rt G Gf Gi t i f y t y t tp r is MISS requirements requirements require require- come to the ments of th the adult life fife Ife We have havee thought too much of the home a a e center where people are fed clothed thed and sheltered and too little of of ot its Its function as a center for solving lying problems of ot relationships a function ulic citizen citizen- tion Uon that is fundamental i In ship to toI means means' teases eases The home by bj no I function in training for tor citizenship I after school church state and vo vocations vocations vo vo- have begun to to- play their thedr responsible home Is Th The part least three three fourths ble for at time after he enters childs child's of a s continues Its Influence school and not or It does life throughout education in nearly offer organized affording at- at constantly citizenship but It is constantly education of ot the unorganIzed an fording more be even type which may ba type potent than large the organization within These deve traits that the home ho ne for In citizenshIp of one type or result that Important it another mal make e facility for tor est establishing and every maintainIng good homes be made mad and this country Is appreciating appreciating ap- ap available necessity more a and such more The movement for parental education education education edu- edu cation is rapidly spreading all over Organized education education edu- edu the United States for parents parent Is noW operating ope cation of oC to two thirds one half In from the the states To what end To their early end that children In n formative years and later may have such wholesome home influences influence ence as wm will bring about a proper er moral vocational vo vo- vo- vo physical mental social and patriotic de development ole that will wiIl mal make e citizenship of the highest type