OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By Angelo Patri TEMPERANCE in all things is fundamental to successful living. Too much of anything is certain to result in trouble, unfitness, failure, and misery. Few people really...
...Let your child give himself a high or low mark for his behavior...
...It is quite as bad for the body and soul to be intemperate in other directions such as temper, food, pleasure...
...Taken in moderation they are a pleasant relief but taken by the day and most of the night, they become a degenerating influence...
...People shake their heads at her behavior and appearance and blame the movies...
...We are concerned deeply about the younger group of adolescent boys and girls...
...Send for leaflet P-13, "Self-Measuring Chart...
...It is common talk that the movies and the radio and the comics have worked mischief and that there should be a law...
...Few people really practice temperance in their daily living...
...A small boy of four sits beside the radio for two full hours listening to exciting radio programs, and he is jittery, uncontrolled, and uncontrollable...
...She apes the manners, the dress, the speech of the actors, and affects their mode of living, to her great detriment...
...Don't allow children to become addicts, and the pleasant ways of life will hold no threats for their future happiness and success...
...Just too much of a good thing...
...An adolescent youth turns on the radio and sits by it for hours on end and is heedless, inattentive, excitable, dreamy, and his talk sounds insane...
...The amusement programs are not harmful when taken temperately but they are a degenerating influence when made habitual modes of thought and action...
...Most people associate the word with the use of liquor and believe themselves to be very temperate folk because they do not drink to excess...
...She plays truant from home and school to sit there and gaze in rapt attention at the fairy story before her...
...The Danger Of Excess Let us get the matter straight in our minds...
...Obtainable by sending 5 cents (coin preferred) to him, P. O. Box 99, Station G, New York, N. Y...
...We, as usual, are looking about for someone or something on which to fasten the blame for their waywardness...
...Angelo Patri has written a self examination which will show a child just where his faults are...
...When Taken Temperately A young girl haunts the movie house...
...The radio programs, the movies, the comics are amusements for the young folk...
...They are good for recreation, not for daily spiritual food...
...In themselves they are not harmful but used to excess they become a habit of living, a way of thinking and of behaving, and they are not good for that purpose...
Vol. 8 • January 1944 • No. 3
