Show 1 Your Y OU Ch Children ld One time I read I dont don't know where a very unbeautiful descrIption tion lon of a complex It was by one of the he leading psychiatrists so It may maybe maybe be taken seriously I He said that a complex was like a dead dog thrown into a pool In I I time ime he would affect the whole lovely lovey love love- ly y water Sometimes by skillful maneuvering maneuvering maneuvering man man- he be could be fished out quickly quickly more more often not If It the pool were deep and he couldn't be found there here he sta stayed edThe ed The wa way to keep the pool sweet sweets Is s to keep out the do dogs s. s So we Infer infer in- in fer cr that the way to keep a a. developing develop develop- Ing ng character untouched Is to keep out complexes Children cannot keep out their then own complexes Nothing is ls so silly as for a parent to say Brace up I You are arc too sensitive Grow a thick skin How are they t to grow a B thick skin when they dont don't know how Now there Is 15 not room to enumerate enumerate enumerate ate all the contributory causes of inferiority So I shall me merely ely cite one Instance Millards Millard's ears stuck out They still stick out They always will But they dont don't hurt their owner one bit He HeIs Heis Heis is a a. nice looking boy HER PRIDE STRUCK If Millard had had a strawberry mark on his back covered by his clothes his mother would have forgotten forgotten for- for gotten it But r Millards poor cars ears hit lit directly at her pride and as a re result result re- re sult suit she cannot let him alone Millard fix your cap Get your ears cars under the edge Sleep on your 51 side de darling and be bc so sure your ear is flat under your lead head John dont don't you ou think our boys boy's ears are improving Mrs Duff Dut said sate she thought they were but I cant can't be sure I met L Lyda Jones and her son to to- to day A fine looking boy and such a wonderful head I Millard doesn't say a word He ne I seems quite indifferent to his cars But never mind they arc are doing more than affect his looks they I Iare are hearing every ery little UHle word said about them and storing them away In some convolution con for future torment tor tor- ment and ment-and and If It the truth be bc known present humiliation The boy Is getting setting the impression slowly but surely that he Is terribly different And children magnify things outrageously Before he hc became self conscious Indeed when he was a very young oung baby l his s ears cars could have ha been nicely managed But the little pitcher grew and why should he pay a cruel penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty now to satisfy his mothers mother's hurt feelings What are arc ears cars or noses I anyway Nothing whatsoever But feelings feeling are and I think it is a shame |