Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-24 | Page 7 | Your Children

N Nj i j Olive O barton ario O bu N A Service fee Why are are experts on behavior tryIng try try- lug Ing to get us away the Idea that punishment Is the cure all for children One question doesn't answer an another another an- an other but why are doctors trying to get away from so much medicine The same answer fits both cases Because we arc aro seeing new ways to ta prevent both character illness and bodily Illness Moreover both mental men men- tab tal doctors and doctors of medicine by the way well we'll soon ha hae e to find another name for M. M D.'s Ds are rap idly discovering and using a new method First they diagnose the disease and then go after it There I Is not so much guesswork as there used to beIT be IT ISN'T SCIENTIFIC Punishment for misbehavior 1 is I largely guesswork A parent doesn't know why Johnny Is a bad boy or why he wont won't mind or why he lie Is lo willful but Instead of taking a a. di diagnosis dl of the real trouble they justS Just get the strap Its It's easier S If they cant can't cure the queer littie little lit lit- tie tle kinks kinks In Johnny's Johnnys character they can at least make him afraid scare afraid scare him to death so that hell he'll make the appearance of minding anyway And that's all they want They're not really curing him for forth tho th urge Is probably still there One or two things thing will likely happen Either Either he he will go on doing that thing under cover or he will suppress It temporarily and It will fester out In later years It Isn't quite so definite as that always but all real progress is made along the line of watertight theory and it Is along these lines of indisputable indis theory that behaviorists are working now in order to Improve the general run Un of character In chil chIl- dren DISCOVER THE S The child specialist will specialist will advise all parents to do as he hO does and get behind the tho real reason of Johnnys Johnny's insubordination or misbehavior and see there is not another and better better bet bet- ter way to train him O Of course first first- of all hed he'd tell them that tat ny should have learned obedience he was 3 I t don't dont suppose mankind or child or-child- child child- kind have reached that stage of civilization when enforcement of law can be altogether without the element ele dc- inept ment of punishment But unquestionably we are working away from It IU As Intelligence and education advance It is Inevitable Remove the tho cause of crime and you remove crime say our greatest Remove the cause of misbehavior and you have good behavior following directly in Us its wake IThe k I The are doing a big work