OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By Angelo Patri THE DUTY of the moment is what carries us over the hard places of daily living. When a great trouble comes we are inclined to sit down by the willows of Babylon and...
...It takes time and energy and quick intelligence to teach a child how to do a household task, to do it on time, and to an acceptable standard...
...Each child needs a daily chore list...
...Without the compelling drive of duty, we become flabby and spineless and aimless and useless...
...No teaching job is easy...
...It is they who must teach them to hold and to use a washrag, to hand people things they need, to dress and undress themselves, to do the little household chores...
...Daily Chore List It is for that reason if for no other, we must teach children that each day of their lives, they have a duty to do and it must be done...
...It takes strength of body and mind to teach a child that he MUST do the duty he has been given...
...When a great trouble comes we are inclined to sit down by the willows of Babylon and weep...
...Doing it helps cure the grief and eases- the weight on our hearts...
...There is too much to be done...
...The mother is the teacher who gives this course...
...It is the worthiest bit of teaching any mother can do, and the most rewarding in the days to come...
...Push off the grief until there is time for it Soon we discover that there is no such time...
...The duty of the moment that demands our attention is what saves us grief, eases the hurts of life...
...They must teach the children to work, to be useful...
...Just to feel needed and useful lifts us out of the depths...
...That list starts with the one thing the little child can do and it lengthens as he grows in power so that by the time he arrives at adolescence he is a self-reliant, useful person in his own right...
...Then the doing of the task takes our minds off our woe and we manage to keep above the waves of affliction long enough to get to solid ground of life once more...
...We will if there is nothing that we must attend to there and then...
...A MUST is a force that drives and at the same time, sustains the human soul...
...Doing one's daily stint is a tonic to body and mind...
...When worry gnaws our minds, when a great sorrow bears down upon our spirits, the best thing to do is to perform our duty on time...
...Worthiest Bit Of Teaching Mothers are teachers here...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 45
