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Show Proper Conscience Training and Obedience Necessary Nec-essary in Child Development By MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, President Women's Clubs Good children will become good citizens. A child whose conscience is trained from its earliest days will know right from wrong instinctively, before it is grown up. Another point is the insistence of obedience to recognized authority, whether it be that of the mother or father or teacher or traffic policeman. Not senseless subservience of a child's whole individuality to superior force ; that is degrading to both children and parents, but obedience, based on the recognition that regulations are made for the benefit of all concerned, con-cerned, and for the sake of the common welfare must be observed. Finally, children must be given the habit of religion. It is the greatest great-est and most essential factor in training of young people. A great deal is said about the disrespect and disobedience of the whole younger generation, but I believe the boys and girls of today are as sound, fundamentally, as they have been in any generation. Disillusioned, utterly frank and utterly intolerant of their elders, yes. But what has made them so? Are not the parents responsible for the very faults we find in the children? Have they given to their children chil-dren absolute honesty, spiritual leadership in its highest sense, sympathy sympa-thy that strives to understand, an example of loyal obedience to established estab-lished laws and above all, a love and comradeship which cannot be doubted? doubt-ed? If they have not let them be careful in denouncing their boys and girls. |
