Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-02-14 | Page 14 | Your Children

I YOUR I I Ip CHILDREN I p I. I We Ve know now that children need l I to be happy to gro grow and be well That Thai ThatIs Is Is they must be contented We think too often of happiness as excitement Real happiness is a feeling that alls all's well not a constant feverish expectancy expectancy expectancy expect expect- ancy of something ng to come But in our anxiety to keep them then L l sheltered protected provided for anc and I l away from the slightest breath of 01 trouble we arc are decidedly overlooking I Ione one thing How long w will lit it last When they are arc older and not so at much older at that whether we C wit will willIt I I It t or not their responsibilities are going going go go- ing to increase And then they will wit I i have all sorts of experiences completely com corn outside our om sheltering circle All we can do then Is to stand by bl r rand and watch the struggle WRINGS MOTHERS MOTHER'S HEART Nothing wrings the heart of or an any mother like seeing her child chIld always always 5 to her a child chUd no matter what his hh afee meeting lie meeting e-meeting up with trials and re rebuffs rebuffs re- re buffs while she is helpless to aid him Particularly if he is soft I mean by soft a child who ho never has known what It was to want an anything without without without with with- out getting It it or to work at anything he didn't like who couldn't have his own way generally speaking about all aU the little things of dally daily living A soft child isn't a spoiled child necessarily for tor I know hundreds rf cI happy children untouched by any of or orthe the troubles of or life who are as fineas fine fineas as silk sUk Yet they are soft green helpless helpless helpless help help- less and to struggle and nd tough breaks Someway or other I think this old world works pretty much on the law lawor of or compensations The older I get Bet the more I believe In the law of or aver aver- ages And that into e each h life some rain must fall I am convinced ut ut- te terly tery I dont don't want to be bc a wet blanket or a Calamity Jane b but t we have to Ic face the fact that our children one and all aU are arc going to have some trouble trouble trou trou- ble bit In their lives MUST l FACE THE TilE WORLD The first trouble they will face probably is when they arc are through with school and go SO out to to- tofit fit themselves themselves themselves them them- selves Into jobs often square pegs sometimes very tiny pegs In various ways was utterly unsuited to the holes In which they find themselves It takes all aU the Iron In character to stick it out go h with it bear it and not break under it emotionally emotionally emo emo- from sheer unhappiness and failure to adapt themselves to a tough proposition Small pay long hours work they dislike dislike it it Is history In the making but they dont don't ko know it And who succeeds Who goes through the he lire fire and comesup smil- smil t p ing lug Those very children who were didn't t taught todo to-do some things they quite like when they were small those who were more or less to disappointment who could tackle a tough Job and not complain about it We Ve can n overdo o the sheltering Wedo We Wedo Wedo do overdo It It 11 is unwise and shortsighted shortsighted short short- sighted to make living one soft pillow pillow pil pil- low for our children no matter how much we Jove them