The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-10
rnB PARENTS.

They are husband and wife.
Have they children7
Yes
How many7
Enough.
How many 10 enouRhf
1t seems as II some people never knew hos
many was enough.
| Is one enouRh2
It 10 Just as much bother or more.
How is THAR
On the hen with one-ohicken principle.
Doesn't one have better chances than n
there we're dozen7
Not SO good.
How can that be1
Give IL up It is the rule, though. that one
child is usually terror
Why 10 that2
Owing to the fact suppose. thar as there
must be one black sheep in every flock. this
one Is black.
Do parents know how to control their ova
children2
| Not as we'll as other people do.
| They like to have good ones. don't theyf
| They think they do. but they don't seem b
be able to get at II always
Isn't it because they love them % that they
lack strength to correct them7
We'll. call It that
Aren't children born bad1
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and some have badness thrust upon them.
Parents are to blame. then. sometimes
Oftener than most people would dare b
tell them.
Parents owe as much to their children q the
children to their parents. don't thsyp
More.
More2
Yes: for parents place them on earth. anA
tho children are in no wise Responsible.
Should parents be rigorous toward thsme
No. they should be sensible.
What would you call sensible1
Parents should be on terms Of fellowship
and friendship with their children: make DOM,
panions Of them.
Don't they do THAR
Do they do it2 How many fathers Of families
are good fellows with their boys3 How many
stand in the relation OF chief of tribe rather
than as an older brother2 It's the exception
for boy to be very bad whom he has had his
father for q companion and friend. IS no was
growing up.
How about the mother7
There's more OF companionship In that
quarter. for the mother 10 always in the house,
But there are bad girls2
As q rule tho bad girl 10 born. not made. A
good mother has saved many O daughter,
though. that a careless mother would have lost.
Are parents always competent teachers for
their children2
No.
They want to be-?
Yes: but circumstances are against them.
Morally?
Scarcely ever in that respect among respsss.
able people.
How then?
In the general affairs Of life.
How does it happen SOP
In new country like ours the children. % q
rule. are in advance OF their parents, By rear
son Of their superior advantages in youth.
Should parents keep UP with their childrenP
BY all means
Don't they?
No.
Why?
For various reasons. They are older and
slower to adopt tho new manners. customs,
and education: they think all that ia needed ts
to give those things to their children: they arc
gnorantly unselfsh. and sometimes they are
Indifferent careless. and lazy.
Should children respect their parents ,iust
he same? 49,
No. A,E
No?
Exactly that
Why? ..=
Children are taught to respect those who are
worthy Of 1t. and II parents do not respect
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live them. they can hardly expect to receive
ON ethfng for nothing.
But isn't this sacrilege?
Not from modern point Of view.
Yet children must love parents who are good
nd kind?
Naturally. yes: In other regards It dopenda.
| boy cannot respect his father whom that
ather. with money plenty to acquire advan-
ages and rise to higher plane. refuses to do
o. though he may place his son there The
oy cannot help feeling his own superiority.
nd it hurts him to think his father cares so
tile for the higher order OF things.
Shouldn't the child overlook this ?
He can't possibly. He must comparo bia
wn parents with other fathers and mothers
Q knows OF like position and means, and
roper pride compels him to demand In soma
egree from them what the world demands
ON him.
How is 1t with the girls2
The same. Can bright Intelligent girl find
easant companionship In q mother who has
eglected her own capacities as that girl was
rowing up. and has made no advancep
But the mother, possibly could not have
spt up with the dauRhterp
No. not in all things. but In the little thinRst
I'd it is the little things that count
Are they all this way2
Oh. no. But they prevail largely In the
eat majority.
What Is the great majority
The great majority in America 10 the kind
here the money and what IL brings are on.
yed by the second generation.
is there more respect for parents In chill
en- OF wealthy people2
The wealthy are strict observers of the
mailer amenities. In tho greater matters OF
erals. religion. and domesticity, the balance
In favor OF the great majority
How does that come about
The poorer people think moro OF Happiness
good homes
Should parents be made confdants OF By
cir children
Always. Parents should know their chill.
ems friends. and PARTICULARLY. fathers should
low the men whom their daughters know.
some fathers seem to be afraid Of the young
en- who are friends OF their dauohrers. or n
I that. they think their daughters are mere
ildren and the men they know are boys and
They don't think SO when a youn1 man ..k.