Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-01
PARENTCULTURE
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Mrs. Chas. J, Haden Thinks Those
in Authority and Children Should
Both Be Taught Duties.

Mrs Charles j Iladen. No. 1878
Peachtree road president of the City
Federation of Women's Clubs. on Sat-
urday injected new idea into the
discussion precipltated by an inter
view gwen out recently by Recorder
Nash r Broyles. in which he char
acterized corporal punishment as in
human and a relic OF barbarism, and
urged that the practice of logging
children, both in the home and IN
the school, be abolished
She advocated course of training
for parents and children, beginning
in the infancy of the latter, by which
there should be instilel into the
| mind of the child a knowledge of au-
,thority, of the meaning of discipline
and natural inclination to obey that
should solve the problem by the sim
pie process of eliminating 1t. 1t would
follow, she declared that the child
that entered school with such train
Ing received in the home would never
need an application of the rod as
| corrective measure for its misdeeds
Mrs. Haden, while she laughinsly
declared that whatever opinion she
might entertain is more or less theo-
rather than on experience, admit I'd
that she agreed with Judge Broylas
that corporal punishment is never
justified, except perha bs as punish
ment for the most fragrant viola lions
of discipline.
Parents to Blame.
This statement she modified, how
ever by declaring that children who
have attained such heights of juvenile
mischief as to be unruly or disobs
dent through malice. thereby making
the rod the only remedy, are not so
much to blame as their parents. or
whoever has their training in charge
The time undoubtedly will CONF,
Mrs. Haden declared, when corporal
punishment will be abhorrent. and
when the logging of children will ha
the exception rather than the rule,
but it will hardly he for some time.
A course of training that proha by
must extend through several genera
tons perhaps may be necessary be-
fore the precepts OF discipline, the
beauties of obedience and a thorough
knowledge of authority is so ground
ed in the mind of childhood that 1t
will be unnecessary to resort to viO-
lent means to enforce discipline or
compel obedience.
II do not believe" Mrs. Haden de-
clared, that the practice Of whipping
children is a thing that can be cast
aside lightly, because it appears to
be human nature, or at least natural
for a great many people, to resort
to the rod as punishment for even
the most triling violations Of disci-
pline l do not think any child does
wrong willfuIl-' or maliciously, AMI
surely there are other means Of con-
However, I have heard children, and
parents, too, say that they have
known children who have been utter
ly unresponsive to kindness and love,
and yet have instantly become Dba-
dent and traCtable after being
whipped so there must be times when
corporal punishment appears to BE
justified. Corporal punishment car
ried to excess however. could never
under any circumstances, be right or
just.
Training Only Solution.
Corporal punishment ! think, is A
problem. and nothing seems to Offer
a solution but training, both for the
parents and the children. IF the right
kind Of training is given, the problem
will solve itself by gradually ellmi-
mating whatever necessity there
might be for corporal punishment
This training has already begun, ana
It is, in fact. 4 part of the feminist
movement that is sweeping the world
The kindergarten and all the modern
scientific methods of rearing q child
appear to me to be things that will
be factors in the solution of the cor
poral punishment problem. At the
kindergarten the child is trained in
the right direction, the principles Of
III sriDlinp a KNOWLEDGE of authority