Show Human n Contact Held Important s sTo To Happiness app of F Family J I Dl Dr William nm M. M f Davidson n Bu superintendent I public schools of pt Pittsburg Is urging a parents' parents week nial Maintain maintain maintaining n lain ing that a Mothers Mother's s day and a 3 Fathers Father's Fathers Father's Fa Ita ther's day arc alo not enough and can cnn be dismissed ss d by buying a n. gift gUt or writing a n. letter on the part art of ot the children Ho suggests that that for for at nt least feast the period pf ot ono one We Week k each ench year the children of the tho family cease being thoughtless and spend A a little time on their parents patents He advocates the tho thc theatre tre Y t l a n. clean bill ris as a n. good thing thinS for or pulling tho the family together I er because the mental rele release sc of f I emotion is a n. wonderful thing for fo sympathetic understanding Here is amen to every word of it But I rather imagine that Dr Davidson Davidson Da Da- Is merely saying II In bl his hie clever clev clev- lev- lev er cr va way Try it Jt for tOI n a a week Take Tak a a sample and If It you like It repeat repent the dose Because If It tho the experiment experiment experiment ment is tried but out properly with nl all its Us ramifications ramifications' and pos possibilities one week of ot such Intimacy y is Js bound to lead to more weeks of ot of loser closer re re- re It Its s largely n titter of ot otIce Ice breaking OLDER CHILDREN FORGET This is applicable to children hUdren of all aU ages ages but It is particularly true of older children for forr forit It Is the older ones pries pries' who forget who become so so engrossed fn n the tho burly hurly of their ow own on affairs that homo home be becomes becomes becomes be- be comes merely merel afree a nN free hotel with mother mother- in charge and nd father r grub I staking The element of ot contact Is too top often entirely wanting and nd the lack k of it t. t il Ian SF lt largely i responsible for tor tho influence 0 of f parents during the plastic years I The a average rage American family seems to spilt when the children j are j old oM enough to go to 10 a n movie or a b basketball game same game alone It Prom From that time on onn t tho e parents go go ono otlo onoway way vay us fiB a usual thing and the children dill chil dren another The cases where In- In Interests in interests converge converge are ue the c exception rather lather than the rule To use a n banality that is 1 t the the psychological le moment ment tile the very cry J moment om nt the tho begins to sUp slip and the family car J loses se coor coordination and pickup The Tho children arent aren't n t altogether to blamo t for r casting off on their own o initiative I I. rather rather think tl that Qt the responsibility of r such a a. situation rests fl first ilist st and foremost with the parents They cant can't use the bral brake e to continue the tho simile arid and they haven haven't t learned to shift shUt gears We can cant can't t use the same method or of holding hold hold- holdIng ing InS o our r children nt 44 14 that we did at 10 yAt jAt At 10 chilI children chil chil- I dren are are well well children at 14 13 o or even 12 they are old e enough to tobo b bo companions and If U parents pa dont don't make the adjustment at this time 1 J d dont don't believe bellevo the children en will later laier Fathers and mothers mothel'S find relief roUe In Ih the evenings In in being alone to toge together to- to gether ge her at home or 01 In going out but together Too roo often ten th they y buy two tickets instead of ct tour four or invite two friends in to play bridge instead of ot m making it a family foursome I know mow children are arc thoughtless particularly when they l reach ach collego coll collego col- col l lego to a age o The times nrc are largely re responsible responsible re- re thc they p put ho premium 0 on family relationships But I still think that thai gulf between th them m I. I and their parents Is nine parts parts' habit and the tho first move should c come me from rom tho the parents parents' to bridge it It ItIn itin In the early arh plastic years ears of or ado ado ado- If It sincerity Is Js to be the basis of ot interest and mutual understanding under understanding under under- standing it will have to be sO oth s so soth oth oth otherwise othI othI I I Vo wont won't t sporadic recurrences set Bet by the by the calendar be more or i less lessi lessof II i of ot a a. NEA gesture NEA |