Show YOUR y NI 1 By ED THE GREATER RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE 1931 PARENT rho Tho Whito House O c conference emphasIzed emphasized emphasized em em- child care caro an and parental vitally import Important nt to knowledge wh as The the welfare of It all nations This of- of flesh recognition has hag given the mother a a. greater incentive than beCore be before be- be all nil the available fore Core ore to acquire knowledge In this year ear or of 1 1031 31 undoubtedly the Children Ire are sante today In m original equIpment but since they have always been a. a as we have made their caro care and trainIng train train- ing lag a no parental profession Instead ol or ora ofa ola they aro no duty a sent heaven longer such uch n mysteries y to th lr pa par paL It I Is becoming more moro difficult for the parent to say wh why sonny nets acts I cant can't Imagine for if It eho sho has ha been as a to ho does studying and lal taking to heart theal the wie literature written vast tant amount of or she and daughters about sons sOilS knows Dow fairly nir well velI what hat makes him act ad as he does docs All AU normal children n go through phases of or growth and f. f development nent and exhibit characteristic reactions and school E to characteristic cha homo situations It the tho duty of ot each eich mother to know what these situations are in order to bo be prepared pre hire pared to deal with the reactions wisely and U understandingly who whon the they arrive arrhe The Tho feeding the of-the infant has be- be como so 60 standardized that f from om one end of orthe the co country un tr to tho the other Ir Irrespective Jr- Jr respective U O of or climate or Individual homos homes babies arc ore t lacIng having a th the lr ir r orange Juice their cod liver 11 oil their theft cereals and vegetables s and milk formulas wIth an almost monotonous mOnotonous mOnotonous mo mO- mO- mO uniformity Such agreement agreement agree agree- ment of or ideas gives Sires the tho mother the faith to pur pursue ue a cm method of ot feeding feed feed- In lag ing that is no doubt rigo to herand her and certainly strange to her mother It would b be be- equally soothing to the parent if It there were seine somo uni- uni of or opinion among amons authorS author ties tics about the methods of or handling behavior beha lor problems In 1680 or Ot v thereabouts h J John hn Locke Locko wrote book dl discussing phases j of of education I lion tion and expressed the tho opinion that Children should bo be tau taught ht how to toI I think and ond not what to think H He likewise disparaged the use usa of ot th therod the therod rod as ns a a. means of ot teaching the child j tho the Joys jors of or conformity to to adult l t of or conduct MUCH TO BE LEARNED This may come como as as' a Q shook to th o parents who ho feel teel that wo who see see nothing magical in tho use ue of ofa or a spanking as lJ punishment are expressing ex cx pressing a a very ety young oung and untried opinion It If this is not a a. new opinion ion by tOO years it I la is as new teach to t to each new crop of or parents as ns if tr it it I had never nc been beon heard of before r Thero There is much to be learned about children and more important important tant hint what Is learned must be put into practice So long as we hay hav criminals racketeers and the in n Sano santi wo are aro not doing Ou our full duty dulY an and rearing our children to te be hap hip useful and adapted d to their p py particular par sphere of or society We can not bo smug or or content with l h what we know or inhospitable t to new Ideas however Ve revolutionary until wo we have brought about a more mor ideal state slate of or affairs Each ch new mother o of 1931 bears a a. burden of or res' res responsibility responsibility n- n to her child an anti and 1 so society and arpi she sho cant can't fulfill it until she has hair mado made uso use of or every available source of or information to build up tip hot knowledge o of or children |