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Show Keeping in Touch With Children. As one grows older it seems harder and harder to enter into the plays and fancies of the children around us, even if they are oui very own. There are mothers who have such busy lives that any exertion that is not absolutely necessary, ig really an impossibility, but many are too lazy mentally and physically to keep In touch with their children, mothers who wail aloud that their children do not give them their confidence. X0 child who had absolute abso-lute confidence in her mother ever went wrong. One cannot help being struck by the lack of sympathy between the avert; ge mother and daughter or father and sr.n, especially as the children grow up, and the fault seems to be 'largely with the parents, not the friend or companion to whom the children would go with even the stillness of youth and have them received as such, not as tilings of lasting importance, and to be referred re-ferred to again and again after they have passed and are sinking into oblivion. ob-livion. "Oh, I can't tell mother anything; she lays so much stress, so much importance, im-portance, on every trifle and never forgets it or lets me. I wish I had a mother I could tell things to," is the try one hears continually from school girls. |