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Show Doctor Says Friendliness First Gift Dr. Benjamin Spock, one of the country's leading pediatricians, pediatri-cians, writes that his first choice as a gift from a fairy godmother to any child of his would be not beauty, riches, success, but friendliness. "I don't mean noisy back-slapping or the kind of shallow 'popularity' which is hectically sought by so many people. I mean real inner warmth, which goes out to other humans, a capacity for genuine interest and sympathy. Friendliest Happiest The friendly person is oftenest the truly happy person. per-son. His spirit is constantly warmed by the warmth he kindles kin-dles in others. Because his feelings feel-ings radiate outward, he is least subject to moodiness, self-pity and suspiciousness. The friendly friend-ly person has the best chance of finding happiness in marriage and family life, which above all else require the capacity to love. ' He has a real advantage in his . work too." But friendliness, according ac-cording to this doctor, is never the gift of a fairy godmother. It is something that is born and nurtured and developed first in the home where emotional security se-curity is established. "Through out his childhood," the doctor writes, "a child's prime need is the steady deep love of his parents. par-ents. And if a child has tjeen happy with his family vand can, in the early schoolyears.shift some of his devotion to his pals, to his gang, I would have no fears for him in adult life . . . Perhaps most important of all, he will be an influence for human hu-man brotherhood on a planet which will soon be destroyed unless there are enough friendly friend-ly people to prevail." |
