Show Youth Wants Counsel Counse Not Pal in Parent By BETTY BETrY BLAIR Be a pal to your your son and daughter Is the advice modern parents have been repeatedly given Now conies comes on to say Youth does not want ifs Its parents to be pals Note the al alternative alternative alternative al- al in the the- following letter Dear Miss Blair I am quoting from Sidonie Gruenberg director of the Child Study Association of America Adolescent boys and girls do do not Hearts' Hearts Haven want their parents to be pals They want to to- tobe be able to talk to them on a basis of mutual re regard regard regard re- re gard of common concern of common common cornmon com corn mon Inquiry of free exchange of thought but they want from them also counsel and discrimination and insight the advantages of the greater experience that years bring In other words they want their parents young enough to talk to but also old enough to turn to Dictatorial meddling on on the part of parents is bound to prevent the establishment of fine relationships This quotation struck me as one of the finest things on the relationship relationship relationship rela rela- of parents and adolescent young people I have seen in a along along along long time Since I have adolescent young people of my own I should li like like- e to know how others of their age regard this point of view Especially Especially Especially Espe on the point of not wanting parents as pals but as someone to talk talk- to with a mutual basis of regard and yet someone with superior superior superior su su- su- su experience to to turn to Young people is this the the he way you look at the parent youth parent youth relationship relationship relationship relation relation- ship Parent All right boys and girls heres here's your opportunity to express your your- selves Are yo your r parents pals If so do you like the relationship Or Ordo Ordo do do you prefer them as people of greater experience than your own who talk to you as other human beings of intelligence Furthermore when you find yourselves in a bit bitof bitof bitof of a jam do you want to feel that parents are someone to whom you youcan youcan youcan can turn whose judgment you can respect and who in turn will Understand unde understand un un- de stand you Or perhaps you have some other ideas about the perfect relationship that should exist between between between be be- tween parents and up growing-up sons and daught daughters rs Lets Let's hear from you FOOD AXIOMS IS Dear Miss Blair In a a Saturday luncheon club that 12 of us girls have we are trying to collect food axioms to tomake tomake tomake make wood cuts cuts' for decorations We know the one about the way to a mans man's heart is through his stomach but we would like some others Can you and your readers help us us Thank you Club Secretary Here are a few food axioms and perhaps we can find others for you later on We shall be glad to receive others from our readers for your benefit In his immortal poem Lucille Owen Meredith wrote We can live without love what love what is passion but pining But show me the man who can live without dining Variety on the platter is the route to peace in the house A full stoma stomach fi makes a light heart First in nutriment first in purity first in the judgment of discriminating discriminating discriminating people Whether or not life is worth living all depends upon the liver If you eat to live live on the best If you live to eat eat the best |