| Show KATHLEEN NORMS Are Your Children we can all make life miserable for each The power to be cruel Is as close as the power to be and sometimes much easier to Any woman Is free to say slighting or cutting things to her Any man may neglect the mother who loves him and break her Any parents may make life hell for their short of actual violence no one will stop Some homes are full of small instances of meanness and little daily humiliations and It is actually frightening to think how easily we may all fall each other in this and how tar-reaching the results of this only half-intended rudeness and thoughtlessness can The members of one family of brothers and neighbors of ours many years never said a kind word to each Too Much Their dinner-table talk was quiet criticisms and If one of the rather shy and not too observed that a young man had walked home with or sent her all the others metaphorically tore the young man from limb to Only a bold girl would go on Into courtship after as a matter of none of the girls If the overworked mother observed that her mother or her sister was coming In for an overnight there were Dishwashing was for all the cheap family quarrels six years I knew under recrimination and It was Dorothy's it was Mabel's turn to As for the brothers those boys were so lazy and so stuck on themselves and so spoiled according to the they were simply no Not many families are quite as disagreeable as were the Optics But of this sort does exist in too many and it destroys one of the most valuable assets any child can a background of love and help and Cheap family quarrels destroy many a sensitive and hungry Goodness just simple goodness and and a humble desire to promote family harmony completely make any life Goodness Isn't easy to But there is a consideration to many women who are socially who want everything about their houses and their children to be might make fine manners and sweetness and worth their Bad Manners Are Common Such women average wives and mothers avoid the word They would tar rather die than have it applied to And bad manners are Squabbling and bickering and hurting peoples' laughing at their troubles or embarrassments all Indicate a background without culture or spiritual in other common If I can sit through just one dinner hour with any family of boys and I can tell you just where the parents failed them or helped them In wise and predict pretty closely their successful or unsuccessful All this comes to my mind because of the predicament of a young wife who writes me from and I will have to live with his folks for another year at says her tear-stained don't hate each I know they But if anyone stays long at the or is Just a few minutes late for a or buys a the way they all scream at or laugh at her or push their pudding away and say they never have liked It is simply If say you do me a the usual thing is to like When did you ever do one for What is says this doesn't mean It's just their But my own home was We weren't as to keep up this kind of mean picking and grumbling at each The result is that we four brothers and sisters love one we like to be and our as they grow out of will have happy times together as My mother-in-law has two sisters to whom she has not spoken for 15 the oldest has married a very nice but they sneer at |
