Show Do DoNot Not Not Play Part of Nagging r Critic If You Y ou Want Happy Hippy Child By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON We Ye parents t take le a er very unfair ad advantage vantage of or children How we c like e dt wit If lC c every r. r Word we vc said salt We vc lid td over every overy I 1 u.- u. Impulse We ve had and tried to carr carry out out wa was being beins an and criticized b by a specialist specialist 0 ci Someone Som who ho knew how huv tf to do everything c we were to todo tollo llo do a a. hundred timer better than tan we Ye C J cOv J do o Itt it V t ol ou we wu soon sou become ward self-conscious self nervous crea- crea creature ture inefficient pulling polling cry ery thIng w ve we a 11 el d 3 and nil il II lly giving up UJ altogether Certainly Ct we 0 c J or lur W wr we oldsters old uld- oldsters hive Ics les moan nio-j stamina thin liMit children when our pride Is at att taxed lcJ S o 0 a dont don't rebound so 50 quickly nor so 50 hIgh How children can Keep on tryIng trying try try- Ing Ino and anil falling failing nn and trying again nothing daunted by hy our perpetual fussing and discouragement I really cant can't see sec Arent Aren't they wonderful to stand up under the reminders of oC constant failures s that the they ha have to endure I HOW UNHAPPINESS IS BRED True fru a few ew o of the more sensitive ones dont don't do so well The They do give Ive up in time Then we se scold them for that Tho rho results In the cases of oC the these unhappy children arc are mental mental mental men men- tal confusion and di discouragement coula that llan hang like mist between them and honest effort t. all the thc rest of or their lives lIns Why should v we c set up our own o s for children to tu measure up to tut tu They cannot think or act or co coordinate coordinate co- co ordinate le as fast as us uc wc can We Yc send Johnny on an errand tics lies forever fore and a day ay coming comin back An Un Impatient nt shake and an 1 could have ha been heen there nil and bac back three times while you po poked e alon along greets erects him lie He has haM this for tOl or tars his thanks lIe He turns away hurl and bewildered I He Ie thinks thanks he has done pretty prell well llo Ile came home with a little speck of pride kindled cJ some somewhere where in his soul But nut where is I Inow it now For some oU queer reason o of grownups lies he's In disgrace a again aIn Perhaps ho lie puts puts up a defense Asti Aw w. I did hurry Then we c get sai sarcastic castle and mak remarks remark about aboul hurrying not nol meaning mean mean- In ing to slop and pat every r do dog shoot hoot marbles with C every boy O o or dawdle past cr c every store window on tho the way LEARNING VALUE OF TIME We Ye simply dont don't know how lion to tomako tomako mako allowance for fOI those uncontrollable uncontrollable Impulses of or childhood that keep interfering with direct pur pur- pose It takes take years c to loam learn time economy econ econ- om omy It Jt t takes a lifetime often orten to learn to stick at a n et set task without from a fixed Idea low Few of oC f us Indeed ever learn It it U. Yet we Wl expect children to measure meas- meas ure ur re up UI to standards we set for ourselves and only too often fall Call to 0 a attain Wo We get et dressed In fifteen minutes min min- utes We c expect them to get et dressed In 1 the thc s same time Thc They cant Wt Wt- set ct the table and get tho time cloth and antl the he forks fork straight The They cant can't Yet Tel we ve are arc more inclined to forgive thins s of or this s sorL rL its Irs the time time wasting that were we're most J about They limey will i snap out oat of oC it as ns the years oafs nt go 0 along They'll have hayo to to lurry hUl In the meantime we wc can save sa our nerves YC a and their theft rc self I If we wo can ju just l bo be patient I |