Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-23 | Page 10 | Your Children

fIU OU IT IQ II 1 I fC C II I-II II ILl II I IE I 7 by Olive Roberts B I 1929 1929 by N NEA E Service Inc Inc I It I wont won't be long now until rc- rc pott po card day Then I wonder how man many dis disappointed 3 appointed mothers will wi look over oyer Buddys Buddy's marks and shake shako distressed distressed dis dis- heads at the in arithmetic arithmetic arith arith- mete and in grammar and the ti-ic painfully retiring marks mark in spelling And Arid how many will wi rem remark rk with puzzled voices I cant can't understand it Buddys Buddy's such a smart bo boy He has ha a word wonderful rC I memOL memory and he gets his geography and amI history by just reading them over over once once I 1 cant can't understand it it It Perhaps if I each ench of ot these mothers mothers moth moth- ers could see the ti-ic monthly test pa papers papers papers' pa- pa pers pen sh she would uld be b both th enlightened and amazed CARELESSNESS PRo PROBABLY Buddy went below passing In three of ot his subjects ver very likely be because because be- be cause he lie was carel careless s and Inaccurate Inaccurate rate In s setting tUng his knowledge down on paper The The tea teacher her hel could probably tell tella tel a a. st story ry o 01 long weary h hours urs spent in trying to break these rates of the error of their ways H Hours rs trying to get them to place their figures neatly neaty under each cach other other other oth oth- er in adding for crooked rows rows' mean crooked answers answel Hours fours trying to impress on careless minds and hands tho the necessity of ot crossing ts t's and amid dotting i's is in spelling If I an anyone ono could invent In ent a magic I way of 01 planting l Jn in shiftless ss yot yo 0 brains tho the dire dho necessity of ot j PU ting hag down the ti-ic decimal point putting It in the right place I b lieve teve the teachers of Amex I Amer would gladly make him president In grammar halt half hal the trouble 1 caused by inattention It I Is is Is' Is abstract subject not Interesting some children Ther Therefore Core they scant heed in class when tho the tea teach teacher er is i explaining BE RIGHT ON THE DOTI DOT This is more mOle forgivable i than the time carelessness of oC s seWn sett tr down d deliberately tel wrong things paper when a n child knows bett bel Those hose tricky little dots are so irn Ir It is 15 one of the tho things I show shout look 1001 1 out for this fal fall Ask B Budd d to lo show you hits his school pape paper and anti If it I there is home work cast investigating e eye eyo o occasionally naly ov ovi 1 0 this also I v Tr Try to Impress s on all al the children chiT chil dren that carelessness is as as' ba baas baas as J Ignorance ignorance worse worse for tor It Jt is ic ics le excusable 1 Improving n a child i will have a rather c salutary cf ft I to rn en his whole mental make ur It develops alertness and and con conc n trUon In catch catching In up the I e s sn things his mind will wi lose its Is s sloPpy slop J py I r can think of ot no beter better WO modo mode of or operation It I will wi clear clear U ii UI land I arid and get et down don to business