Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-25 | Page 4 | Being Fair is Problem for Mother

Being Fair Is s Problem I IFor For Mother jl By n 1 MYRTLE TLE MEYER ELDRED ELDREDE It Ls Is pretty difficult for tor a a. ato mother to o be truly impartial toward 1 hi heri e- e children though she always endeavors en- en n deavors to be The The- difficulty ls ii caused aused by conditions conditio over which she he has no control t p Children differ in age in ap f and in mentality and because of these differences Impartiality is not always at th j mothers mother's command Moth Mothers are human beings as well as mother Yet the problems a mother faces faces' would be more easily soluble vr were she to be as n nearly arly as possible impartial Then no mother would mako make the tho older children bitterly hostile to the baby In the tho family who because of the mothers mother's partiality par par- t always gets his imperious way Let Merits 1 Decide J. J These arguments when th tharise theY i arise should be decided strictly on their own merits not on one child was a girl and the others boys joys who were ordered by mother to bo ho nice to your little list sister l' l Arent Aren't you ashamed to treat treather treather treather her so Incidentally children would bs' bs nicer to each other If each felt that at all times they had the tho same privileges the samo same tr treatment treat treat- at l ment as any other member of the thi family amity irrespective of age or se sex or beauty or individual gifts i It Is a n Virtue 4 There would be bo fewer burning emotions of jealousy suffered by older children over new babies Inthe inthe in hi the family were each child con con- vinced that he had gained a de i de-i J relative but lost nothing In prestige in the family by such luch addition There There- would be fewer heart hears because one ono child was duller in school possessed no gold golden en curls or seductive dimples It if each were convinced that no matter malter what his age or qualifications o or shortcomings his parents loved him 1 equally with the rest of the dren V j 2 This is tho the result of true a virtue to be bo striven for foi not one which the tho mother possesses sl because of her motherhood I fl