Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-03 | Page 18 | Father and Mother Should Deal Fairly for Child's Esteem

FATHER AND MOTHER SHOULD DEAL FAIRLY I IFOR I FOR CHILDS CHILD'S ESTEEM By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED There are mothers who never ne lose an opportunity to ingratiate themselves themselves them them- selves with their children at the expense ex ex- pease pense of the ot other er p parent rent When father hunting his lost pipe says saya irritably Do you have to let that child play with m my best beat pipe just because cauce he wants to there arc are mothers who will wm retort in a righteous right right- eons vo voice ce Get t your our father his pipe darling and then come to mother Shell She'll let you OU play pIa with anything of hers She isn't afraid you'll hurt It Il IlOr Or It may be the father who whispers whispers whispers whis whis- pers to his small daughter to conic corrie to lo him when she wants some candy he knows where it is is hell hell he'll give it to her her and and w we wont won't tell mother Or it may be the grandfather grandfather grand grand- father who wha does this Mother is thus painted as the cross croS old thing who wouldn't let her child enjoy enjoys a piece of c candy nd The grandmother may wait walt until father 0 or mother has done the disagreeable disagreeable dis dis- agreeable Job of disciplining the child and who then sneaks upstairs to wipe away the tears and comfort the child chUd with Naughty m mamma mma making mak mak- ing grannys granny's baby cry You come to granny Shell She'll comfort you These whispering p- p pring ring adults feel sure that all the they have at heart Is the childs child's best interests But why is it that hat they always snatch at opportune ties lies which elevate them in itt the tS c stina tion ion of the child Who but has been terribly erp embar when a mother has asked child Who Is Js the t one you love ti the b best and then smiles smugly wha while the child repeats repeals I 10 my mother best Such parents feel I that such a r o indicates their value ant and worthiness as a parent Instead i it Inspires nothing but contempt in the listener and a deep assurance of the the selfishness elfishness and ot oj the parent Such situations arc are so easily built buill up since in most homes one or th the theother other parent enjoys a natural tage Either the mother does aUd all aU UK the d disciplining and the father stands jj ai an example of ot amiability and pl play or the father plays plas the pat part of t the family ogre and the mo mothe passively basks bask in the affection of the thi children J 1 It should be the task of the truly unselfish sh parent to see sec that the child chil suffers no rio such mistaken estimate o ot of the parent who has the l least ast agreeable agree agre able role to pIa play For such a parent paren to be understood his good point should be exaggerated ex by the other jo so o that the child sees him u as he hi really Is is