Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-03
DUTIES OF PARENTS.
Bill Nye INDUCES in Domestic HOmily
Mistakes in Rearing Children that
Should Be Avoided

Bill Nye INDUCES in Domestic HOmily
Mistakes in Rearing Children that
Should Be Avoided.
We should so live that when the sum-
mons comes to be a parent it viii find us
prepared. Like thief in the night, at
an early hour when we think nOt-like a
thUnderbolt from a clear sky, the call may
come to us, Let the night lamp, there
fore. De trimmed and burning, and the
alum where We can lay hold on it at any
time. But, above all, we should make
ourselves conyeTsant with those little par
liameutary rules which must govern the
conduct of the parent in his or her social
contact with the child. 4 few sugges-
tiOns upon what constitutes etiquette and
shows good breeding in this branch of So
ciety- readily marking and contrasting
the cultivated parent and distinguishing
him or her from the vulgar, the snide, the
plebeiGn, the can0jlLeS as we say in
France). the James Crow and the sans
CUlOtteS parent might not be ill-timed or
inOppOrtune.
In wiping a child's nose be extremely
careful to leave the nose. Some parents
use so much unnecessary strength in
doing this that they find when it Is too
late that they have wiped the nose Of
pet child into space. Nothing gives more
needless pain. Nothing can be more pitt
full than the child's first look of sorrow
and disappointment when he starts to
wipe his nose and discovers shat tits gone.
Pause, fond parent, while the wipe is in
its incipiency, and resolve that you will
spare its nose. 1t can be of no use to YOU
and the loss Of it will be a constant source
of annoyance to the child.
Teach your child the beauty Of frank
ness and open candOr toward all. I'm
press upon him the beauty of being what
you appear tO be and hate deception
everywhere. II you viii fOndle him and
dOte on him in society and jerk HIM bald
headed IN the secluSiOn Of the home circle,
he will readily understand what you mean.
Children soon learn that if YOU hug their
little'giZZards fiat while visitors are about,
and then, when the home life is again re-
sumed, you throw them down cellar and
wear out table leg on their chubby
limbs, that life is real, life is earnest and
the square-toed, open, frank policy is not
generally in use.
Parents should impress upon their
children the beauty Of self-sacTitice and
self-abDegati9n, if they know what that
Is; | don't. If there should be but one
piece Of pie, give it to poor sick papa"
IT may kill Eim, and after the funeral
your young life viii be one prolonged hall
leluJah and rose-tRted wh0op'em up
'liZaiane.
Parents should not be constantly suspi-
ciOus of their children. This will evil
IDENTIFY breed hypocrisy and unreliability.
II you fear that your son is playing pin
pool, do not break down your constitution
and bring on delirium tremeuS, hanging
around the pOOI-tables watching all night
for him. He Will look upon you with dis
trust and no doubt at last tell you to 90
and soak your head.
DO not constantly tell your boy show
talf' he is-that he ''grOws like a weed'-
and finally make him think he is a giraffe.
If you keep il up you Will finally make a
rOund-shOuldered, awkward. bashful bean
pole out of mighty gOOd-IOOkfng boy. If
every tall boy in this country will agree
to lick every wOOden-headed man who
tells him show he does grOw,'' l will agree
to hold the coat of said tall boy. l am
now dealing with a subject OF which /
happen to be informed. The same rule
applies to girls as well. If you want to
make your daughter fall over the piano
and yearn to climb a tree whenever she
sees anybody come toward the house, tell
her ''what a great swallOping tOm-bOy she
is getting to be-" In this way, if parents
act judiciOusly and in concert, we can
soon have a nation of young men and
women whose manners and carriage will
be as beautiful and as symmetrical as the
plaster east of a sore toe.