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Show Very Important About Your Child It is one of the strangest chracteristics of mankind that parents continue to give inadequate inade-quate thought to the proper methods to be used in developing the personality of their children. Too often, in the homes of this valley children are permitted to grow to maturity with no effort on the part of their parents to utilize the latest scientific discoveries dis-coveries in relation to their family associations. Undoubtedly, there has been a marked improvement in the treatment treat-ment of children all over the United States. This has developed develop-ed within the last generation. Most parents of today remember when grown people assumed the duty of "breaking" the child's will and forcing the little one to develop in accordance with severe parental plans. In this connection a special instructor in-structor and director of children's work, points out: "It is impos-pible impos-pible to change another human, even one's own child. As long as the parent concentrates upon his own determination to alter the child's adjustment or personality, as long as his attempt to understand under-stand the child is only for the sake of being able to pull the wires, to make him other than he is, so long will the child defeat him." The Pyramid often wonders whether the average parent does not devote entirely too much attention at-tention to minor characteristics, making an effort to develop the child by the inhibition of undesir-ed undesir-ed traits and omitting the vastly more important business of building build-ing up in the youngster those admirable ad-mirable characteristics that stand out as luminous sign boards, pointing to wonderful and almost limitless possibilities in the way of self -development. Too often, in our judgement, there is an effort on the part of parents to take over the problems pro-blems that belong to a child. In stead of permitting- the boy or girl to develop naturally, under the least restraint, and centering encouraging attention upon the desirable attributes which inevitably in-evitably exist in the makeup of every child, too ma'ny parents attempt at-tempt to control, not only the life of their off-spring, but also to mold every fiber of their personality person-ality and to direct the very tenor of their thought. It is high time, as we see it, for parents to understand the impossibilities im-possibilities of such an undertaking. under-taking. There is no more important work for adult beings than the encouragement of true nobility in the life and ideas of the young, but to be of value to children and to serve them in life, the admirable qualities must have natural growth through careful development. Having said this much, let us not be misunderstood. Parents should not permit their children to deveop without any parental restraint, but they should under-1 stand that children grow and their childish ways are not those of grown people. The children of Sanpete valley who are fortunate enough to possess parents who understand in some degree, the manner of their being are possessed pos-sessed of one of the greatest advantages ad-vantages that can come to any living younster. I |
