The Brunswick news., 1912-11-30
Teaching the ehild.

Tie boy who starts in lie with "a weII-equipped
mino s1rong vso.o4s oo4s uo~s ~ ....4,-
,uS-.o1 sae.,iy ca4rees I4-Iure TO causes
~ souu as coAuo ne coys weaAness IN THIS regard
meaAusgs large extent by all
u Inc man who fails in business seldom thinks OF
personal Responsibility natter noweve1 lnucn
he may be at fault The farmer VINO was born half n
never caught up is always two weeks De
hnd mis- seeding harvest, the weather and
shaessness held accountable for failure says
the St Petersburg Independent and continues its sun
aay revere:
The trouble with most OF ug y that We are so near
perfect in our estimation that we never confess 10
lnseaAea. 40 not take knaiy to aoylce and
sense Of observation is obcuse that most knowledge
we possess through the hard knocks Of
experience. The desire shirk responsibility born
men, and as life advances cultivate it so
studously that it becomes habit The spirit which
possessed Adam to charge his downfall Eve who
turn transferred it to the snake is as old ne race
and it has 1ost nothing in the passing of time
George Washington and his cherry tree and hatchst
have long been held up medos for American boys
and girls, but the standard is exalted the aver
boy continues blame the other fellow while the
average gr seldom admits she is at fault This habit
Of placing the blame for the ills Of life somebody else
not confined the family and social life but enters
largely into the fabric OF community national
life that 1t becomes disturbing factor The unrest
and dscontent which prevails such large extent to-
day is TO the fact that people we nave shlrked
personal responsibility, and result the busy
former and designing politician have got in their
Our taxes have scared skyward and all serts Of
reasonable laws have been placed or De booAs
because by neglect or carelessness\ ave sent men
our legislatures who represented The man and his
or bts gnts oRgr t.l
the people.
What true of the town. the country. and ahe
true OF the nation People whose brain was just
enough discuss the weather the STANDARD Oh
nave naa usion and now acRle the high cost OF liv-
ng the railroads and big business with all the Wis
dom of seer 1t is the fad of the day and the fad is
in keeping with the cowardly habit of laying the blame
on somebody something else And in looking Tor
beginning OF this habit We may back to childhood
How many foolish parents teach the child from baby
hood that the bumps ana misfortune come from out
SIDE that he she is the poor victim he mashes
his anser it is the naughty hammer" that did It, and
the hammer must be whipped If she butts into chair
and bump it is the old chair" that hurt
baby and be smacked oh, how foolish!
Teach the child that he she is an intelligent rea-
soning. responsible being and that inanmate objects
are not to blame. Teach them responsibility Teach
them to not blame their playmates-that it is coward
ly to do Teach them to know themselves and to
feel that it is their duty and privilege work out their
own destiny, bearing the fun of responsibility
for what they do fail to do Tell him It the
less boy who mashed his finger that the helpless ham
mer not TO blame, and that ~ should the ham
mer to better purpose He will be manier and bet
ter boy and grow up to be a worth while. Teach
he he mis- ho 10 splF-
liant and We will have less of the l4ambypamby,
planning good-fomothngs.
And when have men and women who study their
own capacities know their falings and guard against
them, and take to themselves the full OF their
personal responsibility for failure shall have fewer
grumbers and less failures.