Milford chronicle., 1912-04-19

LuCtdHt4y Dluulng you gOOO-bYe with
feeling of awe and wonder, quietly tool
his seat, eagerly scanning the teacher
face to read if she too would love hin
as mother does, so many little bows anC
girls around him make him wish to b,
at home with only baby brother or littl,
sister. Or, it may have been yours wa.
one OF those courageous little souls who
love change and excitement, and the
hrst day was a JOY and novelty. Which
ever 1t was for them, for YOU it was the
day when your kingdom was invaded
when rival has come to sit with YOU on
the throne of YOUR child's mind and
heart. What better could we do than
make this woman our co-worker. our ad q
wiser, even our best friend thus recog-
niAng and cementing the Independence
of school and law It is all old and true
saying that when a stranger takes a child
by the hand, she takes the mother bv
the heart, and surely the sympathy which
will be awakened by heart to heart talks
between parent and teacher, much which
IS beneficial, must result. The mother
will find in the teacher a wise adviser
and sympathetic friend.
This is now the influence which is to
decide for many a boy or girl, whether
SNAApDA - ~ DN ~ lAlLli VI Isl d uE9lL dUlE
place for years to come. The Child Study
movement has become such progress
sive factor to so many leading thinkers,
writer's and lecturers in the editorial
world, that there are now i'll connection
with many schools where conditions are
most nearly ideal Parent Teachers As
sociations, which means that parent and
teacher work together over child prob
A1rqN ha cc1v-aI se~1TNa.1
effort and interest of the guardians of
both home and school. 1t is pre-emi-
nently the right and duty of the teach
ers to know what is being done for the
child in the home. It is her function to
further the best teachings of parents, or
help build a standard of right living
where there has been a poor one, or none /
at ali. To do this she needs to know
and become intimate, or at least on social |
terms in the home.
Now and then parents feel that the teacher
of their children is not qualified for her
duties, and of a social social caste apart !
from them. However, this may be grant /
ing the truth, is it not then your duty to .
her, to help elevate and bring her into |
refined surroundings, showing her your
sympathy and interest. Surely a good /
rule works each way. If she helps and
influences our children, we can lift and
influence her life, perhaps implanting
higher ideals and ambitions than could
ever come to her working alone.
MAY indulge in a few personal ques-
tons, which your heart may answer in
silence? Do yau know your child's tea
cher? Have you ever called on her
Have YOU ever told her how much you
appreciate her untiring efforts for your
child That realizing John is a nervous
boy, or that Mary is careless about her
work and Indifferent with her lessons? ?
You are sure they must try her patience.
Though you are helping them at home
70 overcome these, you need her advice
and friendly council. Have you ever
Visited YOUR Childreu's $ school and seen
he environment which surrounds them
or six h ours each day, almost their en-
sire waking period Have you ever in
yited her to your home and given her an
to see her pupils in their
natural surroundings Has it ever oc-
urred to you, on the many Saturdays
When YOU could not, by virtue of your
uties as housekeeper, use your team or z
uto to send it around to the teacher
With a CHEEKY note saying, you know
he must be weary with the week s work
nd YOU want her to go for long drive
nd a healthful fresh air" Or when
ONE good lecture or concert has come
, town that you know she is, or should
e interested in, have you ever sent her
ckets or invited her to accompany you
lave you ever so much as sent a plant ;
)r the school room, or a picture for its
-alls? Have you in any way manifested
lie least interest or appreciation of her q
easeless labor for your child The cry I
,-day is not that teachers are not inter
;ted in education of children, but moth f
s are not interested in their children 5 f
lucation-only supericially so. They h
.em too often to feel when the child en- n
rs school, their duties are over. If =
= doesn't learn it s the teacher fault; 81
he acquires wrong ideas and habits of
fe, its dire association with other boys s.
Id girls at school, never stopping to Il
ink that by entering the school life t.
it'll your child, walking hand and hand it
ith the teacher and bringing his new T
lends into your home, will do wonders q,
make the new life of your boy or girl :,
stronghold for all future. Come let u
live with our children means more ~
an being housed under the same roof. II
that only mothers would be m
esent, l am not touching upon the az
lcher's viewpoint of this co operative el
auence, 1t is not alone the mother W
d child who are benefited. The tea
er will have a deeper conservation for ",
r work She will gain such a spiritual -
lift that her duties-rather her privi- u
yes-will become more beauti6ed, and 10
W strength, insight and inspiration DI
Il come to her. nj
[ cannot close without one earnest plea az
better attendance at the Parent Teach te
, meetings held in so many of our
lools to-day, and yet so poorly atten-
1. These meetings presenting NUM-
less topics of interest and value. touch
at every point from the college bred lio
man to the mother whose advantages a.,
re been so limited that she is unable i1s
read or write. Meetings not wholly pa
ial, but where suggestions are given de-
making home the brightest spot on sib
tn; where children's games, stories the
songs are discussed; where child Del
ure is made a special study. These for
1derful meetings, where in the simple A.,
of your childs school life, ue
ent and teacher with bowed head "
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