Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-12-06
SOME VERY TIMELY
ADVICE TO PARENTS
Raise the Children light at Hom.
Before Sending Them to the
Public School Teacher

CuiIureu anu tne school teachers OF
today, that mothers aud fathers CO.
operate Willingly and intellieently in
the work that the school teachers have
to do.
There is much talk, in homes. of the
school teachers shortcomings.
There is far too much readiness to
listen to the stories of children ex-
cusing their own poor work with
criticism of teachers.
The matter is most serious. The
teacher cannot possibly do his best
work and give the best results unless
the parents Cooperate with him intel
ligently. Let us consider what the
duty OF parents is, and what the
teachers have right to expect.
Fathers and mothers know what an
strocious thing . spoiled child is.
You pity tue father and mother that
must control one spoiled child.
Don't fail to pity the public school
teacher who is expected to control,
by kindness and intelligence exclu
sively, dozen or more spoiled child
rem.
The first thing for you fathers and
mothers to do is to see to IL that you
do not send spoiled children to the
schools.
Remember that the most Intelligent
conscientious, devoted teacher can see
all of his work made useless by over
petting of a child or foolish severity
with child.
Fathers and mothers in America
demand, properly, that teachers shall
not strike child. They should send
to the teacher children that do not re.
quire blows.
Fathers and mothers demand that
In school their children shall be con.
trolled by moral persuasion, appeals
to their better nature by intelligence.
Let them send to the teachers,
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controlled in that manner.
Realize that the father is teacher's 8
partner in education, and that the
mother is the teachers ally.
How impossible it is in family to
bring up the children properly il the
father adopts one method and the
mother another.
How many children are ruined by
contradictory orders from father and
mother
Think what task you put before
the teachers when you expect them to
control so many children who at home
are too often directed in opposition to
the teachers wishes and even en-
couraged to disobey the teachers.
We emphasize this point Control
your children by kindness and in.
telligence. You have no right to
send children otherwise controlled to
the public schools.
If you say, Il have boy that |
can only control Dy whipping him, !"
or II have girl that must be whip.
ped once in a while" how have you q
right TO say, II will not allow a
teacher to touch my children.
If you cannot control one child
without brutality, how can you ex-
pect a pubic school teacher to control
40 or 80 children by kindness:
1t is disgrace to send to the pub
! lie school, children that have been
made the victims Of blows and
brutality at home and expect the
I te soher to do the hardest of all work,
the instilling Of education. without
recourse to the only kind OF persua-
sion that the child is accustomed 10
obey.
Never encourage child to speak
disrt spectfully OF teacher. Nsver
encourage a child to put blame upon
a teacher. There are defective
teachers, Of course. And 1t does hap
Zen that the child may bring its
father or mother truthful tales OF
shortcomings on the teachers part.
Invstigate these things If yon will,
but investigate them for yourselves
remembering the tendency Of child
hood to exaggeration.
Don't be made foolish by the fact
that it is your child that talks. Find
out yourself, without encouraging the
child to disobedience by listening too
eagerly TO its storS. Then. if you find
that your child has spoken absolutely
truthfully take such steps as you may
please.
Don't laugh at your child when 1t
tells Of the smart things" that it
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