The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-06
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOME

Success or Failure in Life Determined
by the Child's Early Home Training.
H. A. Bruce in The N. Y. Outlook:
The judicious have long grieved at
the gullibility with which people who
are by no means illiterate and unedu-
Gated accept and act upon the most
preposterous suggestions of the frau
dulent advertiser. from the patent
medicine man to the SWln0llng promo
ter. Political mountebanks n char
latans daily ride into power through
nothing else than skilfully working on
the suggestibility Of the voters. So,
too, religious cults, no matter how
fantastic, gain a foothold and a fol-
lowing.
And as usual the blame for all this is
wrongfully thrown upon the schools,
which are held solely responsible for
the inaccurate observation, the defec-
tive reasoning, exhibited by so many
Of those who we're once their pupils.
Whereas, let me repeat, 1t Is In the
home, in the unfavorable surroundings
of childhood, that the source of the
the parent, not the school-teacher, and
it is time that parents appreciated this
and governed themselves accordingly
The first seven years Of a child's life,
beyond the slightest doubt, are the
years hat count for most in the snap
ing Of it's character and career, as also
for the shaping of society, as a whole
Ignorance of the vital truth, Ignorance
Of the necessity for constant care and
watchfulness over ones own words n
actions when in the presence Of the
young, is Of itself responsible for much
of the misery and u~nhappiness so evil
dent in the world today. AS is well
said by a psychologist who has made
a special study Of the inner life of the
child:
Tn those early impressions, of which
no one seems to be- conscious, least OF
all the child, and which gather uI
power as the rolling avalanche, the
elements are collected for future emo.
tons, moods, acts, that make up q
greater part of the history of the in
dividual and of states, more etfectlVe
and significant than those that are
written down in memoirs, however. in
times, or that can be discovered IL
archives, however secret The strang'
vagaries of affection and passion which
affect the whole existence of men an!
, ~women-the racial and religious pre-
: JUDGES that shake states and com
, munities to their very foundations, tina
make and unmake regulations n sc
! the wheel of progress back into tn
dark ages-can be traced to sue
small beginnings and into those nook
of mans subconscious memory. In tn
intimacy Of the family, where ever
conscious effort is supposed to b
made to develop the best social tend
e encies, numberless thoughtless remark
and ~insinuations directed against
class, a religion, a race, many acts G
Z unrestrained cupidity, are reconstruct
ing insidiously revivals OF mediaeVs
persecution"
These words are equally applicabl
Ito all the social problems. The hys
terra so often evident, for instance. i
the attitude of labor towards capita
- and Of capital towards labor; the bin
allegiance of so many to the principle
= Of political parties, even when thos
. parties are manifestly in the wrong
= the inability to deal rightly and force
9 fully with great social evils-one an
all of these things will be found, o
close analysis, to have their origins j
the training, or rather lack of train
s ing, Of the period Of childhood.
n Instead, therefore, Of paying bl
h transitory attention to children, ir
r stead of letting them run wild or II
Trusting them to ignorant nurses, tt
parents themselves should undertai
their upbringing, above all things col
It scientiously e~ndeavoring to surrour
a them with just the sort Of environ
mental influences that will impart Gu
g. tural suggestions of the highest valu
and endeavoring, by personal tuition
establish n them habits Of concentr:
- ton, close observation and logical RET
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