Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-03-12
The Bringing Up of Children.

| emerge from tine modesty that has
obscured nae for many years to state firm
~ that / know more about the hrnging
dp OF children than any other woman in
the world In short, | know more about
the bringing up of children than | de
about setting hens or trading horses.
have never snapped horse having been
brought up in the old Calyinistic belief
that he who swaps horses can not enter
the kingdom Of Heaven; and | do not set
hens, neither have | been married much.
SO free from prejudice and being uIt-
warped by personal emotions / feel pc
culiarlY fitted To tell the aching world
how have brought Up the children
which | have never had.
| take as Il premise that an old maid
can best bring up Il child when the child
belongs to Il friend and she does not stay
in the house with ii. II, however. you
have children among your other blessings,
You should build room that is absolute
~ soundproof, has padded walls and Il
carpet as thick as Il mattress. so that You
will not hurt yourself if you cry yourself
into temper.
When a child is angry and yellS violent
~ It Is best to put the father into this
room and leave him quite alone. / do not
wish 10 be understood as rejecting upon
the Creator in any way, but | insist that
were not born into il until they We're >
years old, honse broken and amenable 70
reason from the jump. l thin& TOO, that
StGrks should bring babies with the priv
llege of fathers or mothers returning them
II they prove unsatisfactory on inspection
As rule father with his first child Is
very inexperienced and children should
take this into consideration and not be
harsh in their judgment. With my own
eyes have seen a 3-months-od child
beat its father with clenched fists be-
cause of some miSchance in serving II
small, hot bottle: how much loveler il
would have been had the child only real
lzed that his father was quite unfamiliar
with bot4les--I mean, of course, nursing
bottles. OF late years | am pleased 10
note that fathers are beginning TO take
their proper place in the nursery. For
this much we ought TO be grateful for
the new woman. A man is peculiarly
fitted TO exercise moral suason over an
unruly child, being strong in his arms
and good shot by nature. Cbservant
fathers report that a child is more open
to logical convictions when the lobe OF Il
child'S left ear is firmly held between the
thumb and finger of his doting parent
and the child is gently tilted forward on
his little pink toes.
A father should not expect or desire
precoclty IN his young at a very early
restrained from studying Greek until he
was 50 and quite grown up. Catos
father knew his business. Some parents,
however, expect unreasonable things
from their children 1t was not long ago
that | heard father tell his child.
Tommy, every time you tell lie y0a
make me ashamed that you are my son.
How unreasonable it is to expect little
lad hardly able 10 babble to tell as good
4 lie as Il groWn-up man.
Mothers, too. are singularly lacking in
6rmnesS when dealing with their OFF
spring. as have noted with pain in the
case of the woman next door, who allows
her progeny TO play games with noises
under my window at the horrible hour of
Q in the morning. when | am enjoying
my sweetest slumber. because il is time
for me to get up. The hand that rocks
the cradle is not the hand that rules the
world. 1t does not rule the baby The
hand that spanks the baby is really the
hand that rules the world.-P itlsburs
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