OUT CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By Angelo Patri JEALOUSY is a terrible affliction. It destroys mind and body once it is allowed to take hold. It seems to be such an unnecessary affliction that nobody would willingly...
...Jealousy is childishness gone to seed...
...We show them how they can shine on their own a-bility, and once they find that road open to public approval, they forget to be grudging and jealous...
...Search For Own Gift If everbody could understand that each has his own place, his own powers, his own talents, his own way of life, and learn to like it because it is his, regardless of the other one's place and powers, there would be no poisonous jealousies...
...Two boys, brothers, who had always behaved well, always had good reports in school, began falling down and the teacher searched for the reason...
...Their father worked in a shop and one of his fellow-workers, and close friend, was made foreman...
...goods or friends would not pay the price for his place, could not fill it if he did...
...It seems to be such an unnecessary affliction that nobody would willingly abide under its blight...
...That upset the father so much that he made home-life unbearable for his family...
...The best cure for it is the victim's resolution to suffer no more under its blight but to search for his own gift and use it to its full...
...They seem to want to hold on to their complaint against people and life and opportunity and so have a defense against the charge of failure...
...Maybe nobody does, but after seeing a few grown people, grown in other ways than this, blight their own lives and darken those of their children, I am not so sure about it...
...Every good thing in life has a price set upon it and he who is willing to pay that price may possess it...
...That is the trouble: they fear they will be charged with failure...
...Often the person who is outraged by another's possession of place or...
...He could not abide the idea that his friend should be placed above him...
...Affects Old And Young Jealousy seems to affect old and young alike once it attacks...
...But the grown people who carry this childish immaturity into adult relationships are more difficult to help...
...We usually can help little children to find a way out...
Vol. 8 • July 1944 • No. 30
