Show MEET EM OX ON THEIR OWN GROUND I 1 editorial from colliers As the school year starts to move shifts gears and finally slides into high countless parents resolve to enter more completely into their heir childrens work A worthy resolve often too easily abandoned but theres a key to doing ft t instinctive instinct instinctively iv ely II if you would learn to work with your chil dren learn first to play with them better still dont learn it lust just do it here are hints which one lather father gives of how he kept in touch with his children at this moment my small daughter being out I 1 am acting as nurse to two wee guinea pigs which she feels would not be sate safe save with me there were also small boys about the house when we got home mother went upstairs first and was met by archie and quentin each loaded loaded with pillows ana an d whispering not to let me know that they were in ambush then as I 1 marched up to the top they assailed me with shrieks and chuckles of delight and then the pillow nant raged up and down the hall taking on a japanese wrestler or two brought him into keen sympathy with the older boys often by the time I 1 get to five a 0 clock in the afternoon I 1 will be feeling like a stewed owl alter after an eight hours grapple with senators congressmen etc then I 1 find the affie wrestling a trifle too vehement tor for mere rest my right ankle and my left wrist and one thumb and both toes are are swollen sufficiently to 0 o impair the their ir usefulness and I 1 am well mottled with boulse s elsewhere eise where still I 1 have made good progress and since you left they have taught me two or or three new throws that are perfect corkers no theodore roosevelt ever have to learn to work with his children that took care of itself |