Show V r 0 YOU f IU IH I I tC II h-II II IL If D I II o i Olive Rob Roberts Barton Bartoni I i i O 0 1929 bu NEA Service Inc Should ire e fach t ach the children to bear ear disappointment or should we avoid avold disappointing them 1 I I Yes That's the answer to both i ts t's Just like everything e else that requires common sense It sense it all de de- de i I 1 believe e I should begin with I he tho second and en end cna with the first Little children should not get into the habit of ot looking for broken promises from parents If Ie they are areo t. t tea o learn confidence they'll never get it by being promised something some- some thinS thing only to be disappointed On the he other hand when they arc are older It t is necessary for them to know that hat when things dont don't break their wa way they must be bo sportsmanlike and take it without too much com- com plaint I 1 know a a. pair of parents who were vere In most respects the best parents arents in the world Tho They had three thred little tittle boys and in th the way of food tood clothes and playthings s those hose children had everything e that heart rt could wish But it was tho the big big- idea in that house louse to make the boys Spartans to to teach them to bear disappointment without grumbling I 1 think ff if they e had been ben a flU little older It might have havo worked or if it ift It t had not been overdone o SUCH A DISAPPOINTMENT One da day their father had prom- prom promse let se j to take the three thre to the cir cir- cus The They were all dressed and ready to go when he lie telephoned phoned that ho hit couldn't go 10 that that- day dar but would ttY try to make It t the next Now 0 a n. circus is a a. circus but enthusiasm cant can't always be warmed uP up to taste the samo the next da day The They didn't say tay much however Th They had had too many lessons to complain now I was teas amazed at the submissive wa way they took it it and I said so so 50 but their mother told old me proudly that th they always behaved like that It U might Just be she sh added on the side that their father did It intentionally lies lie's always uh Bringing little lessons like that The boys bops aro are older now sonic some way the they impress me as be beIns being being be- be ing Ins without too ambition too ready to take the count Are the they goIng going soIng go- go Ing to be the kind l who cant can't stand Aland standup up and tight fight Sonic Some Someway way I like lIlee spirit and T i think big things are I b done don by people who resent being floored oared I If It Ita a no fine thing to learn to take punishment without complaint but Isn't that dlf different nt from rom getting getting getting get get- ting Into the habit of ot thinking that hard luck is inevitable and tl that t It is useless seless to struggle o it |