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Show Cooperation and Help by Father Needed in Home By MYRTLE MEYER EI.DRED Good father! dflfi"t et this way; Do you try to snare mora than your share of the children's affectum affec-tum by being always the generous gift giver, leaving to your wife the thankless and often disagreeable jobs of rearing and training? Do you keep saying, "I don't know why you can't make them mind?" becausa In the Infrequent and irresponsible times you spend Your Baby with them the children act like angels T Don't Criticise Do you feel It necessary to crttl-clzeyour crttl-clzeyour wife snandllngof theH children to your mother? Because you should recognise that your mother didn't do such a good job on you. if you still need her sympathy sym-pathy for your problems. Our leaflet, "Conduct for Parents," Par-ents," may be had for the usual three - cent stamped, self-addressed envelope sent with your request for the leaflet by name to Myrtle Meyer Kldred of the your baby and mine department of The Salt Lake Telegram. Do you say. "Come to Daddy, darling," when your wife feels It necessary to chastise the children justly? Yet you bewail your children's chil-dren's lark of respect for both your own and your wife's dictates. Do you shoo the children off to Sunday school and expect them to develop a feeling for religion when you yourself spend Sunday reading the paper or playing golf? Miare Attention Do you read the paper at the table and then grouch about the children's lark of deportment and their inability to converse intelligently intelli-gently when you deign to addreaa them? Do you quarrel In front of the children? Such emotional orgies make definite scars on sensitive children. Do you assume that Just because you happen to be the children's father that willy nilly such relationship relation-ship entitles you to respect and love whether you do anything at all to am It? There's more to this business of being a good father than meets the naked eye. ' |