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Show I PARENT'S DUTY TO THE CHILD 1 j . .. i By MARIE L RASEY, Detroit Teacher' College, Parents must first assure themselves that they are grown up before they undertake the directing of other lives. Parents fail to realize it, but oftentimes the daughter is grown , up more than her mother. One of the chief characteristics of maturity is the assuming of responsibility. This means the ability to solve life's little problems as they present themselves. We are all in some stage of growing up all the time, and when young people seek our help we'd get along better if we assumed that shoulder-to-shoulder attitude, rather than that of "I know it all and Pll lead the way." The adjustment of one individual to another is one of the greatest problems. The more a child has been pampered the Ie?s he will be able to adjust himself to others. When he leaves school he understands little of life's values and has a hard time facing problems. When a parent pampers a child he takes, free of rost, a privilege frhich the child himself pays for with interest later on. Teach your child that responsibility is a privilege and not a burden. |