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Show Homemakers Hold 'Roundup' Last Monday in Provo The theme "Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let It Begin Be-gin with Me" started Provo's 8th Annual Homem a k er s ' Roundup as the first of four meetings was held March 2 in the Eldred Center. The "Roundups" are held annually an-nually for women in leadership positions in the communities. Featured speaker, Dr. John Segger, Assistant Professor of Sociology, BYU, spoke on communication com-munication between the parent and the child. In explaining the communication communi-cation process, Dr. Segger stressed the need for life experiences ex-periences common to both the sender and the receiver of the message. He suggested that ways to increase these common experiences exper-iences are "by increasing the child's activity with the parent's, par-ent's, the parent's activity with the child's, and by developing new activities to do together." Dr. Seggar said that parents should be more understanding. "As parents, we have areas in which we don't want the kids involved with us" and that "we should understand that there are areas in which they do not want us involved with them." Dr. Seggar raised the follow ing questions as being basic-issues basic-issues in child-parent relationships. relation-ships. "Can we accept them when we disagree? Are we really honest in communicating? communicat-ing? Do the parents assert too little or too much authority? Do we interfere too little or too much?" Dr. Seggar suggested six things that parents can strive to do in their relationships with their children: "be concerned be empathetic, be available, be sure you have all the information, informa-tion, be just and be fair, and be just right." He concluded by saying, "In all these things, accept them for what they are, love them for what they are, make them feel secure, and create excitement excite-ment and enthusiasm." Mrs. Stella Oaks, adult education, edu-cation, Provo City Schools, also al-so spoke. One of the original founders of the "Roundup," she stressed the need for good family fam-ily relationships. It is important import-ant "for the mother to set the tone wherever she is," she said and that the challenge is in "how we feel with others, and how we teach our children to respond." The next meeting in this year's "Roundup" will be "Zest to Do Putting Meaning Mean-ing into Life" ... the Team Approach, with Dr. Kenneth Hardy, Professor of Phychol-ogy, Phychol-ogy, BYU and his wife, Mary Hardy, and will be held March 9, at 1:30 p.m. in the Eldred Center. |