The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-08-06
HOME Circle Column.
A Column Dedicated To Tired Mothers
As They Join The Home Circle
At Evening Tide.

Train your eyes to rest on the
brightest spots in life. Pass the
darkness on the other side. One of
the sunniest places on earth is the
spot made sacred by the hallowed in
fluences Of those We love in our own
homes.
The time to have the brightest
lamps lit the hottest supper ready,
TO wear the gayest dresses and hunt
up the funniest stories in ones mem
DRY, is the cold, rainy night, when
there will not be any company, but
when the homecoming husband, sons,
or brothers will doubly enjoy the
cheer.
The father who is "chummy" with
his boy, gets down to that eager, in
QJiring, restless little soul and eX-
plains and encourages, does not need
to cut birch CAD in order to main
tain discipline; and the mother who
sympathizes, cuddles and plays with
her children can keep her slippers on
hor feet and her hairbrush on the
dressing table Children need love
and sympathy as much as flowers
need air and sunshine.
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THE DISCIPLINE OF CHILDREN.
About the worst thing parents can
do is to discuss the failingS of chill
dren before them. The next worst
thing is for one parent to attempt 10
punish the child and the other parent
protest against it. Either action will
damage the respect of the child for
one or the other Of its parents, and
If there is one thing more than an
other that parents want to preserve,
1t is their dignity before their chill
dren. A child who gets the idea that
one parent is at variance with the
other on the question Of discipline
will make both unhappy and render
itself decidedly Objectionable by play
ing off one parent against the other
If you want to have any harmony in
the family, get together on the Ques-
ton Of disciplining the children at
least In their presence-and if you
want to quarrel on methods, do it in
the privacy of your own apartments,
where you can have it out without
lowering yourselves in the eyes of the
children.
900
II may be thought that when the
child has grown to manhood or wo-
manhood, as the case may be, that
the parents duty ceases, and that
henceforth he can paddle his own
canoe" and no longer occupy their
anxious minds. But once a parent is
to be always a parent. No right
minded father or mother can ever
cease to be deeply interested in and
DESTROYS for the best welfare of the
child they nursed in infancy, and
watched and guarded tenderly through
childhood's hayward years; and so as
the years pass by their eyes are still
directed to the object of their affec-
ton, with the hope and PRAYER that
he may be spared trouble aui happi-
ness may be his portion in life. This
is the living wish; but the flesh is
weak; the world has snares and al
lurements, and too often in his am
bition for his brilliant boy, the faith
er forgets the wisdom the years
should have rooted IN him and with
holds much needed advice from the
beloved one, and even helps him into
entanglements and debt that will
sooner or later be his ruin. If we
could only get away from unholy am
bltion, by that sin fell the angels"
and not only advise better things, but
act as though we believed them,
many a son would be kept in the