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Show "TRANSFORMED WOMAN" Be Patient With Husband Permissive With Children Child rearing is one of the greatest problems with which parents par-ents have to contend. And there are many schools of thought on what methods produce the best results. A writer for the American Magazine, Vance Packard, is the proud husband of a pretty, attractive wife and three healthy, normal nor-mal youngsters, ranging from 2 to 8 years in age. A few months ago his wife and the three youngsters waved goodbye to their Silvermine, Conn., home and headed for Pough-keepsie, Pough-keepsie, N. Y., to take a month's course in Vassar College's unique Institute for Family Living. While Mrs. Packard, along with 115 WOMEN jt other wives from all parts of America, spent their time learning learn-ing how to live a richer, more peaceable family life, the youngsters, young-sters, in separate dormitories, were under 24-hour guidance by experts on child rearing. In discussing the aims and achievements of the Institute in an article featured in the February issue of the American Magazine, Papa Packard relates the many changes that have taken place within his household house-hold since the family's return. A BIG CHANGE "I have on my hands," he reports, re-ports, "a shimmering, transformed, trans-formed, confident woman who exudes patient understanding and knows all the answers. My three youngsters, likewise, are transformed almost beyond recognition. rec-ognition. They are more self-reliant, self-reliant, more friendly, more relaxed re-laxed and, for the most part, more civil to their daddy." Lacking the training other members of the family received, Packard presents himself as "still pretty much the same gruff, reactionary old moss-back," moss-back," but what he writes in t the article indicates that he, too, is changing. TWO P'S The essence of what his wife learned, Packard asserts, is that the key word for coping with husbands is patience. And the key word for coping with children chil-dren is permissiveness. "Although our home is now dedicated to permissiveness, my wife insists that she does not believe in extreme permissiveness," permissive-ness," says Packard. "There must always be clear limits set for the chlid's guidance, and he must know there will always be consequences to overstepping the limits." |
