Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-04-09
1IaInIng Parents.

4 society has recently been organized
In London for the better education of
parents and for their more perfect
training for the guidance and manage
meut OF children There Is, indeed,
need of such Eociety. There i moth
ing which the average person so readily
and 50 completely outgrovs as rcmem
brance of the feelings. the needs, the
demands, the necessities of childhood.
Parents often, in a certain way, are
cesss!sssly quarrelling with their chill
dren, because they are not men and
women. They forget the childish Joy
there is in shouting and jumping and
tumbling. They are constantly put
ting the cost of q rent garment against
the endowment of all that They don't
want 10 turn sOmersaults or roll in the
sand or make mud pics themselves, and
why should their six and eight-year old
boys7
They will compromise somewhat on
skates and hand sleds and foot balls and
dol g. But. on the whole, they would
keep the children down to quiet and de-
corous arnusements. They also expect
them to have anappreciation of the SEN
sitiveoess and irritability and irascabii-
ity of nerves strained by toll and care,
weakened by disease or demornlized by
bad habits.
The children Of family are ever ex-
pected to sacrifice all theioy OF noise to
the nervous sensibility of gouty uncles
or hysterical aunts. How great a re-
pressive trial to childhood, indeed, are
the nerves of middle life or elderly
years. How great a domestic tyrant,
indeed, is matured sensitiveness of the
nervous system How many parents
ever think how much they are asking
of their children when they demand
that the joyous shout shall be sup
pressed, that the merry prattle shall be
stilled lest somebody's nerves shall be
! rasped?
We hear much of the sacrifices which
parents m ke tor their children, but
very little of tie sacrifices that are re-
Guired of children. The magnitude of
a sacrifice is measured, not by the in
| trinsic value of the thing sacrificed, but
| by the value put upon it by the one who
gives it up. 4 chance to "holler" may
be worth as much to q small boy, as
morning newspaper or a cigar to a grown
man.
| Parents are also sometimes strangely
| forgstiul of the sensitiveness of the ju-
venile cutIcle on the come-at-able por-
I tions OF the ado!escent person
The proper training Of parents would
also bring relief from the Juvenile ter
Tor, the adolescent holy horror 1t
would show the distinction between un-
! due re- ression and over indulgence. 1t
| would indicate the line of healthful re-
straint
The manner in which this trimming
school for parents Is to be conducted Is
not stated In fullness and detail. Prob
ably one feature Will be lectures from
those who have had large experience
in the parental business. There may be
/ object lessons with the exhibition OF
J specimens OF the different kinds of
training. The small chance of re-orga-
nizing the parents who have been hard
eled in their perverse ways will, OF
course, be recognized. 50 the main
efforts viii be directed TO the proper
bringing up of those who are Just be-
ginning in the parental line. Things
may be SO arranged that q card of ad-
mission for the parental training
school will so with every marriage IL
cense-