Show Dorothy D Dr r thy Dix Talks PARENTS ARE YOU VOU TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN THE COURSES YOUVE YOU'VE LEARNED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HARD KNOCKS LESSON NO 1 I IS HOW b TO C GET T ALONG WITH PEO PEO- PEO PEOPLE THEN THEN THERES THERE'S THAT COURSE IN MONEY VALUES AND ONE ON MATRI AND MONY-AND MONY AND THE THEONE THEONE THEONE ONE CALLED PERSONAL TEMPTATIONS ARE ARE-are reeducating ARB your our children for life Of Ot course you OU are arc send send r ing them thorn to school Even the poorest among you 0 try to give boys bos and am girls at least an elementary education Many of ot you are sending your sops SOlIS and ad daughters to ollege r although It costs you sacrifices to do so I But all education does docs not come comeI corn I put up in packages and andI I there are things even more Important I- I Ifor for children to learn lurn than to read and Il I write There I is so much knowledge I z that we can can only learn in the university I sity ally of hard knocks How much of L the wisdom that you ou have gained F- F through bitter bittar experience are arc you pasing on to your children h bt Are you them for In in 1 n la 4 stance how to get along with other e people Most Mo t parents dont don't make an anI I effort to rub the rough edges edge off oft their children or to teach them the first DOROTHY DIX DX principles of ef how to adjust them themselves selves to their fellow creatures THEY T THEY orA shrug their shoulders and say that John Is morbid morbidly shy or that Tom Is Js quarrelsome or that thal Susie has hM a high temper or that Sally Is So boss bossy and they let it il go at that They hey never r try to teach the bashful boy self confidence and so his Inferiority complex They never make the quarrelsome boy realize that he is Sa jeopardizing his whole hole future by belD being belus so disagreeable that no one will want to have any dealings with him They never teach Susie to control her temper and her tongue or make Sally understand that the dicta dIcta- dicta wom n Is t the c most unlovely of ot her sex lex ex j Yet Vet on a mans man's and womans woman's ability to get along with other people depends not only their hap happiness pine but their suc suc- suc success suc success cess in life It Is a mans man's best belt asset aset In business It Is Ir a I woman womans woman's trump card In society It Insures bliss bills in inI into to Ony I to TIlI T earth and the fullness thereof belongs to the sua suate fl the cour courteous the adroit who know how to say Bay tIle the right thing at the right time and In the right place who can be firm without being or of- of o who can differ with us without Sn us and smooth us down instead of at rubbing our fur the wrong way Yet Vet how many parents ever even speak to their children about the Importance of learning how to get along with others other to say nothing of oC teaching them how to turn the tho trick AND A ND theres there's the matter or temptations Most parents act as It temptations cease to exist if it the they only ignore them Or 01 at any rate as it t children couldn't possibly be assailed by them Not one father In a thousand ever commences teaching his son sons while they are still little boys boy about the dangers of what we euphemistically call wine women and song Of course the tle father preaches a little cut and sermon lermon about be being ng sober and moral but he ho doesn't tell the boy that at every turn of the road the demon rum and the scarlet wom n nare are waiting to grab him 4 AND ND he doesn't show the boy how to avoid them He put AND A the fer fear of a wrecked stomach and wrecked nerves Into hIm Nor or does dues he point point- point out put out to the boy the shaking old alcoholics and the I dodi doddering old p paralytics ics and the prematurely senile old men who are rea harv harvest st ot of their wild oats s And what mother tries to teach her daughter why she rhe must not kiss and pet and permit familiarities from boys Of cours course mother tells daughter that It isn't nice t to do these things thinas and daughter laughs at her because of all things in the world she the least lust desires to be a nice Vie Vic Victorian Vic Victorian torian young lady And so she goes her way to destruction because mother doesn't teach her that her danger lies from within and not from without and that It Is not men she the must protect herself from but from her own passions lIEN there Is the matter of ot money How low many parents ever teach THEN T their children n how to save money and how to spend it wisely and well well It If the family is wealth wealthy or father ather makes mites a good Income they are brought up to 10 be spendthrifts They throw their money away SO recklessly it has become a proverb that In this country it is ani only two generations generations- from shirt sleeves to shirt s ee slee es es There is no com coin commoner moner monel tr tragedy among us than that thal of the helpless penniless old men and women ome 1 who have let the that they Inherited slip through their fingers angers Few are the children who are taug taught t to shave and deny themselves the indulgences indulgence they want at the minute in order to have have havethe the tho bigger thing later on Yet their whole- whole prosperity depends depends on on this If you have the ability to says save ave you will s succeed eed Hill HIli the gre great t railroad builder told told a young youna man man If IC not not you you will fail E knows that for an absolute truth truth yet parents Indulge IndulgeS IndulgeS-i E EVERYONE ther children in things they cannot afford to give them and let Itt 1 spend sp ri c ut they can get their hands upon Working W girls learn the value of money by earning it but very few girls who are supported by by their parents ev ever r have an allowance or are taught anything about handling money buys what whal they need or they have hare a charge account and iv th the first money money or or which they ever have the spending Is their hus bus husbands bands And Add its it's Ignorance oftener than thau Intention that causes causs them to waste it and Indulge in tn senseless extravagance And how many parents ever teach their children how to tobo tob ho bo good husbands and wives Father Fattier knows that a mans man's mans man's happiness depends upon hi his hir wife being understanding and sympathetic and reasonable and a good housekeeper but he doesn't try to develop these qualities in hi his hil daughter nor to teach her how to look at things from the tho mans man's standpoint Mother knows knows that a womans woman's happiness in marriage depends upon having a tender generous husband who will pay I her little attentions and keep up his making love but she sho doesn't impress the Importance of doing these things upon her son 00 0 THEY TIlEY trust their childrens children's future to luck Instead of ot giving thema them SO S 3 a reliable road map that would sho show them how to avoid the Hie boggy and the hairpin turns and t the e bumps over which they ma may wreck their lives JIves And finally the great majority of people turn their chil children dren out Into the world without ev even n teaching them how to tomake tomake tomake make a living I Y let them stumble Into the tha first jOb lob that comes along without TI T OHEY considering their their fitness for tor It without giving them any special training for tor or it and so BO foredoom them to failure when a Ut le little expert I knowledge would have bave made them successes So I ask ak again how are aro ar you you educating your children for life How are you fitting them for the tha world In which they must liver live DIX DIX DIX- Copyright by Public Ledger |