Show The Family Scrapbook By DR ERNEST G. G OSBORNE Just wait until your father comes home Then well we'll see whether you will obey me or not How often upset mothers have used words similar to these to try to control difficult children Many a father has been cast in the role of disciplinarian disciplinarian disciplinarian dis dis- dis- dis when he wasn't at atall atall atall all anxious so to be cast Or look at the other side of the a father faUler expects his wife to take talce all the responsibility for disciplining the children He feels that since he has such a short time with them that time should be all pleasant pleasant- ness Neither such lopsided an arrangement arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar- ar is desirable Father and mother are both parents and have joint responsibility in disciplining as well as in other matters Its It's unfair to children as well as to father to put off pun punishment if punishment is isn n needed eded Its It's much more effective to have ve the matter mattel tak taken n care careo o of at al the time it occurs Nor should dad expect mother to take the brunt of all disciplining Children will vill develop much better attitudes altitudes toward both parents i if these parents take responsibility shoulder to shoulder shoulder shoulder der instead of one passing the buck to the other |