OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angele
Our Children By Angelo Patri PARENTS KNOW by instinct that boys must have fun, but somehow they have not the same feeling about the girls. Yet girls need fun as much as the boys do. Their health...
...After that she is in charge...
...Usually girls work intensely at their lessons, while the boy is more casual about them...
...Doubly Hard In Wartime This situation is hard enough in peacetime, but it is doubly hard in wartime when the new way is the accepted way, regardless of all else...
...When a child goes astray it is usually found that he has not had the benefit of wholesome rearing among people of wholesome attitudes...
...It is comforting to remember that all boys are not predatory, all girls not easy victims of their emotions...
...She goes only to homes or houses of entertainment > that are known and approved by her family...
...They cannot learn this if they are shut in the house while the boys play on the fields...
...Most of them have steady heads and strong hearts, .et them have some fun too...
...The few that are not are soon known and shunned by the others...
...When a child is reared wholesomely, and taught the truth about life's ways in friendly fashion, he is not likely to go far astray in any direction...
...He seeks companionship on the playground and the lot...
...All wise fathers and mothers protect their daughters, but the life of the cloister is not the answer to the problem...
...She returns home under his escort...
...Reared together, they have no illusions about each other and they make fewer mistakes...
...Let Them Be Together This means that the girls must be acquainted with the boys, know their ways, understand their feelings, learn how to get along with them happily, and how to keep the best side of them toward life, and toward the girls themselves...
...Their health demands it...
...They must go where the boys are, join in their interests, and in their recreations generally...
...The girls must go out to fend for themselves by-and-by and they should be trained for that time in their childhood...
...They will marry and they must have experiences and training which will help them in that, the most important state of their lives...
...He is freer at home than the girl...
...If his fun is curtailed he makes a great noise, while the girl will keep quiet about it and suffer the more...
...A girl goes out only with a boy whose friendship with the family is of long standing...
...They will go to work, and they should be trained for that experience...
...Hold fast to a few well tried and proven rules...
...The great group of boys and girls are wholesome in their attitude toward each other...
...Such boys and girls can enjoy each other's company without endangering their morals...
Vol. 7 • October 1943 • No. 41
