The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-04-21

THE AGE or DlsREsPEcT.
Boys and Girls and How They
should be Accepted.
The time from ten to fifteen years OF
age, writes Epson Clark in paper on
the above subject. is of all the periods
of life the most lacking in reverence.
The problem of how to live with this
young person, often three or four strong
in a single family, 10 an absorbing
problem in the minds of parents.
Even in a well-managed household,
it must have been remarked by every
observer that the boy or girl OF from
ten to fifteen. especially If he or she be
bright and ambitious. is likely to be-
come bumptious. A boy may have
comported himself up to the age OF ten
or twelve with modesty and propriety,
but he often takes q turn about that
time and becomes impertinent, heed
less of advice and even OF command,
scornful of father and mother and gen.
orally uncomfortable. 1t is time for
exercise of the choicest wisdom within
our reach. These children ore full OF
life and hope; they are successful in
school, leaders among their mates and
80 far instinct with confidence in them
selves that it is not strange that they
find themselves cribbed, cabined and
confined by the restrictions OF home.
They do not realize that their parents
have been through just such series OF
triumphs and successes as they them
selves are enjoying land 1t the truth
were known, were probably as disa-
greeably conscious of it as their chill
dren now are of their own small clev-
erncsses) and they regard the heads OF
the family with something which sa-
| vors not remotely of contempt 1t Is
easier for a mother to bear this than
for father, and yet the mother usu-
| ally comes in for the greater share OF
| the disdain Some one has written
that if we could realize how our moth
ers love US there would be new force
| in the world. These children are very
far from realizing 1t. They can no,
realize it until they are fathers and
mothers themselves
| mo chance, no fame.
No wealth of love can ever compensate
For dead mother"
But these unseeing ones, wrapped II
the dense, Opaque brightness Of youth
have little perception of these deepes
truths
'But how shall we manage them?
asks perplexed mother. How cal
we make them listen to us, take GU
advice, treat us with proper respect II
the presence of others do the drudger.
which falls to their share in the house
hold work thoroughly and well, believ
that when we forbid pleasure it is to
their best good-from that sharp an
waspish word No pluck the sting2"
i In the first place do not find fault to
much. Pass some things over. Do
much as you can of the neglected worl
If the child has. as is likely, real nobi
, itv at bottom, this course will touc
!. his heart We all hated drudgery
|, his age. Talk with him alone as muc
|, as YOU can. 1t is hard to make an
, impression on a child when he is su
, rounded by others Show an intere
, in his pursuits, even if you feel none
Ion . DC CTOSo W HIM WACA AaO AAsS~
, up the reception-room and when
persistently. day after day, keeps b
!. own room looking as much like ke
: mel as he can. Good Jane Bidd cal
!. 'scolding and crossness" the curse
clean women and ten times worse ths
the dustiest dust. Many boy al
: girl, at this critical age, have be-
turned permanently against the
= homes by the fault-frding and ca
= tiousness of over-clean mothers
! But the great general rule Ito ada
the directions in the 'Faerie Queen
: is BE patient and again be patient
J. but be not too patient" A lit
= wholesome spirit in parents is go
: thing now and then for these 'bum
2 tious,1< children. One must, in sho
: apply to the dominion of the hor
!. what Tennyson has written of gre'
y er kingdom, or republic, in which It
common sense of most shall hold
y !, fretful realm in awe" The great g
n n, of common sense is never more need
than during the age OF disrespect
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