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Show LISTENING and LIVING by Tammy Thompson Dear Tammy Thompson: Maybe this is a new quirk, having hav-ing a mother write for advice for her darling daughter, but here goes. My daughter is age 17, has been very popular with boys,- and especially es-pecially her latest boy friend, a sailor boy who is home on sick leave. The boy appears perfectly well physically, but am certain his extended sick leave must be official. The point is, he has nothing no-thing to occupy his time except telephone my daughter or call on; her. He's a proverbial "parlor hound" and is annoying the entire en-tire family. Perhaps, he hasn't the means for "stepping out" to a show or dance, but meanwhile daughter DOTTIE's social time is being completely absorbed by a sailor boy who is five years her senior. Worst of it is that our daughter doesn't seem to mind. Since my daughter will not put the damper on this relationship, it seems either my husband or I will "be forced to tell him that we're seeing too much of his company. com-pany. What shall we do? DOTING - PARENTS Dear Doting Parents: All of us are more or less actively ac-tively interested in seeing our daughters have a good time so-I so-I daily and meet "MR. WRIGHT" at the right age. What is the right age, one may ask? The right age is after a school has secured her life's education, whether it be only, on-ly, a high school education, a college col-lege education, or a professional education, and when she has ma-J tured emotionally to know "who" she wants for a life's mate. Now let's discuss the case of. the "parlor hound." The first thing that puzzles me is that yourj daughter seems to enjoy being: home - bound, which is contrary to most teen-agers these days J Also, you say your daughter has been very popular with boys. This sudden "right - about - face" indi-j cates 'otherwise. Usually, it's the.1 girl who has had no male attentions atten-tions focused on her who is thrilled thrill-ed to be entertained at home with the family gathered 'round. j Since the problem has become! a "family" problem and not just a "teen" problem, it is entirely cricket for the husband to put the young sailor - boystraight with regard to occupying so much of your daughter's time. Also, you might ask him to take your daughter daugh-ter over to meet his folks and spend the evening with them (but DO NOT suggest that the boy's parlor is the place in preferenc to YOUR parlor because your daughter is at least under parental paren-tal eye spending her evenings in th HOME parlor.) If you want to test the young man's interest in the family, get out the game of MONOPOLY and call in the whole family to participate. parti-cipate. If you follow this proce-dur proce-dur night aftr night, h'll soon get wise and figure it out for himself him-self at least he will have learned: learn-ed: "What price, MONOPOLY!" Tammy Thompson |
