Show Dorothy Dix Talks DONT KEEP YOUR CHILDREN IN PERPETUAL SWADDLING CLOTHES HELP THEM TO CHOOSE THE LIFE WORK FOR WHICH THEY ARE FITTED AND ABOVE ALL BE A 1927 MODEL PARENTS SAYS DOROTHY DIX PREPARE YOUR CHILDREN FOR LIFE DON'T DONT D ONT delude yourself Into thinking that the world is 11 going to be soft and padded tor tar your jour our children and that they are going to drift through it on flowery beds of oC uee as the old hymn puts it IL No miracle Is going to be bo worked in their behalf V They arc are going to find it bitten hard bard and a a. battle from start to finish Just Juat as everybody I else's children do I So breed Into your children th the ther r courage to fight like brave soldiers I Develop their strength Is 0 o that they can stand on their own feet Give G- G them the grit to endure and Carry on 0 Teach them self control so 0 that they I e may b be matter masters of their fates fate and captains captain et of their souls oula W WHAT WhAT chance has mammas mamma's darling pet pet- petted TV ted spoiled haired golden-haired boy who w o has V never done a lick of work or earned a dollar or had any responsibility to make a a. success when he ho comes In competition with go-getters go DOROTHY DIX who have fought their way up Inch by inch About as much as a babe babo would have of knocking out Gene Tunney In a prize fight What chance of happiness has tho the girl who has been beeD pampered all of or her life by her doting doling parents who i never er had a wish denied who has hal ha been reared to be extravagant and selfish and think of ot no noone noone noone one but herself What Is to become of or such a girl when she must submit herself to a boss If she ahe goes into business How Is the she to get along with a husband You can only protect your children while they are In th the home nest When the time com comes at u It doeS doe very soon vh when n they must try theIr own wings wing th they y must take theIr chances In the open You cannot then stand between them and nd dan dan- ger You cannot keep koep them from getting hurt Thy They must mut fend for themselves and Unless you have taught tau them how to do this they will be crushed and broken DON'T DONT DO D ONT T try to keep your children in perpetual swaddling clothes Dont Don't make them too dependent on jou OU Teach them how to walk alone so that they will not stumble and fall Call when your hand h nd Is no longer there for them to hold Let them decide things for for- them them- selves If they make mistakes they theT will gain wisdom from every blunder Teach them how to meet the dangers dang that every boy and Girl must encounter and make maks them realize that th the tempts tempts- temptatIon tIon that Is the hardest to resist comet comes from within not without STUDY YOUR CHILD DONT DON'T D ONT let your our vanity make you believe that Just because your tour our child is your jour OUI child he be is 18 a pin feathered angel or a transcendent tr genius that is ordained fore to set the world afire dIre Try to get a line lineon lineon on your child that will enable you ou to size up accurately and dispassionately J Its Ita weak points and Its strong points so 80 that you may ma help V VIt it develop its talents and overcome its handicaps A Dont Don't deal dul with a nervous nervous neurotic child chii as at you would with a phlegmatic husky one Encourage the tho timid Curb tho tha overbold Praise the one with the Inferiority complex Suppress the egotist And dont don't forget torget that children are Jr peculiarly sensitive to suggestion and will live up to what you expect of them STUDY S TUDY your jour our children from their cradle days up so that when the theO O time comes when they must choose their life lite work you can direct them Into the tIme right channel and thus save them from the th misery and arid failure that are the portion of or those who drift into occupations for which nature never designed them It is ii Impossible for any Intelligent person who gives th the slightest thought to the subject to watch any child child grow up without seeing that it has hal certain aptitudes and certain preferences preferences and some particular skill In some ome direction that Indicate Indi Indi- cats cato unmistakably the line of work that It should choose TET YET Y ET most moat parents parent give gl so little consideration to this vital Hal matter matt r. r I on which their childrens children's whole happiness and prosperity depend d lend that they cannot even e offer a suggestion when Mary and John floun flounder der dei around too Ignorant and inexperienced themselves t en e to know what they want to do Above ill dont don't force y ur children Into any n they dont don't like Dont Don't try to mike make a dull boy a lawyer 01 o a doctor because there have always alway bun been lawyers and doctors doctor In your family Dont Don't try to make the boy who r. r a born orn lawyer or doctor a merchant because you have built up a big grocery trade IND out what your our childs child's bent is and let it follow that because F only In doing the work he loves to do Ill v lil he find contentment cont and success FINALLY BE DE MODERN PARENTS BE YEARS THIS PARENTS G Gt Get t up to date You can no more mor rear children successfully nowadays by the tho rules and regulations by which you were brought up thin than you could do business In the way your father did HERE Is no more use In discussing whether the old methods were THERE T better than the new than there Is in arguing about whether horses hones and buggies were safer than automobiles The old days when a father exacted unquestioning obedience from his children and when he beat them like dogs do s If it they displeased him and when he held over them the threat of disinheriting them and turning them out of his door If It they the dared differ with him hm are gone The boys and girls of this generation laugh at the do do- domestic domestic tyrant and outwit him and defy him They are no nomore nomore nomore more afraid of him than they are of a bogie bogle man and If It they give obedience It is through ugh love of their parents parent and because bee they have an abiding faith filth In their mothers' mothers and fathers' fathers wisdom and justice Therefore win your childrens children's confidence Make M ke friend friends of them Talk over their problem problems with them man t to te man and woman to woman and guide themes them along Ilona the right road They will listen to suggestion but they will not net take order orders You can lead Iud them where you will but you cannot drive them theman an Inch In tn your our children Trust them Put them upon their honor BELIEVE B and not often orten will they ther fall fail you DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |