Show home education the childs first school is the family rr Y issued by the he national kindergarten association 8 west irth street new york city these articles are arc appearing weekly in our c columns 1 alternating THE CHORES by hilda richmond why in tile the world do you send jann janns s to the grocery nhen han herbert could do the briand en and so go much better and get home sooner asked mr air croft when hisson his son had delivered the parcel minus the string siring and plus sonic dust showing the little boy had dropped it james could be given some work at home it if it is the training ti tin you have in mind then james would never leiah to 10 lo do errands ermands properly said sirs airs cron croft 1 I change the duties about so all may be taught to accomplish each task well and so as to be fair tuo too james might feed the cut cat and weed the onions better than herbert in fact I 1 know lie would but he must learn to carry things carefully also and to bling bing home the tight light article and the right change maybe you ave arc right i mary alary but for the sake of your nerves it would he be better to put each child at what lie he can do best this is a day for specialists you know laid and to me it seems a waste of time to require the chil children dien to perform tasks that they do not like but mrs croft stuck to her system and one day a year or two afterwards ter wards when hev her husband was cutting the grass in the back yard he heard the children chil dien of his neighbor complaining and wrangling over some ome trivial tasks 1 I t never get a chance to go to the stoic whined richard of course not retorted fred mother likes her pleat meat and cheese to be still covered with pappy paper when she receives them but you complain to for you always get the job of sprinkling the flowers you don t do it right explained richaad d all the same I 1 dont think it is fair for you to get all the easy thin thins things s to do easy said fred 1 I like that going boing through the hot sun or the rain easy mr air blank cams came out to quiet the boys and then leaned over the fence to lo ask liis his neighbor about his garden after a little they began talking about their children childr en both fathers were poud of their sons john and arthur arc a e a bit quarrelsome about their chores sometimes said mr nank mank but they are arc fine fellows your I 1 three boys dont finein to wrangle i so much how do yon yol manage mana ge it 1 I cant claim any credit for it ed sir mr croft croftin in fact I 1 gusej to wife was making I a inis stake with her bookkeeping system of alternating 3 the chores so each boy would take his turn at hard and easy ancis but it seems to out well 11 Is that the way you do it exclaimed the neighbor it sounds reasonable I 1 remember when I 1 was at home on the farm arm I 1 always had to get the cows because I 1 was a poor liand hand at picking ve vegetables ge tables I 1 still feel occasionally that I 1 got the worst of the deal but aunt maltha who brought us up after mother alethe died lind imd a way of fitting the chore to the boy and keeping it there jim and I 1 mould have en enjoyed joyel a change occasionally but she hid had cast iron iules and I 1 never was allowed to go down to the letter box to get the mail until I 1 was vas well vell p past t twelve because once I 1 dropped a letter in the mud it seems n at are the same in all a ll 11 generations laughed mr ali croft as he picked up the handle of tile the lawn mower iley hey richard called mr mank mother wants some whole wheat bill ad for lunch run down dow it to the store and get a loaf and let fred rake the grass the look of gratitude on the face of his little boy as he took the money and skipped shipped joyfully away quite touched mr blanks heart ive been a dun dumbell ibell he said to himself you give but little when you give of yourl your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give george ceorge 1 as littlefield |