The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-14
The Education of Children
The Old Maid May Know More Than Others.

she has lots to learn about tnem-
Don't take it for granted that the person who hasn
children knows nothing about bringing up children or Is
unable to advise in regard to It,
We have told you more than once that the foundaton
of modern sound educational ideas that wonderful book
"Emile,' written by Jean Jacques Rousseau
This s% ma i : F7R one Of Them AT
BIRTH ON THE STEPS OF THE FOUNDING AsY-
LUM.
of them up-pehaps just well for them although
II is icult to conceive of anything more dreadful for
child than the monotonous killing life Of public In
stituton.
Rousseau left all of his children the steps of the
founding asylum He was nothing but child himself IN
the practical world always In search OF someoooy 10 take
Yet Rousseau knew more about HOW to educate a
child than anyone of all the millions of human beings that
lived on the earth with him
There is many an old maid and many old bachelor
that can give fathers and mothers excellent advice about
children. Sometimes their own loneliness makes them
more keenly appreciative Of a childs wants AND
CHILDs RIGHTs.
foolish advice about children just there are married
people who overestmate their knowledge-for in
stance the middeaged wife who resented advice as to the
care Of young children The advice given by an un
married girl and the proud mother replied: do You sup
pose want to learn from YOU how to bring up cmdren!
HAVE BURIED NINE. I ought to know all about chill
dren''
Our same friend writes The people who need articles
on the bringing up of children most ARE THE ONES
WHO HAVE NO SERVANTS"
advice and especially in need of of responsibility in
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What child needs above everything else in this world
is THE INTERESTED ATTENTION OF IT'S OWN PAR
ENTs.
The child left to servants-no matter how intelligent
or honest they may be-is to be pitied
The time will comet will come SURELY--when the
education of children viii be managed scientifically and
nhgeny and parents relieved of much of the worry and
care that weigh upon them at present
But now, and in the future the need Of children will
always be THE AFFEOTIONATE INTEREST OF THOSE
THAT BROUGHT THEM INTO THE WORLD
The child lives upon affection more than upon meat
and drink
The child Of the father and mother that employ no
servants suffers sometimes PHYSICALLY.
The child in house with fifty servants suffers in
fnitey more SPIRITUALLY.
There were no servants in the house where the baby
Abraham Lincoln lived If that child had been born in
of the houses upper Fifth avenue facing Central
Park in New York city, THE CHANCES ARE A MIL
LION TO ONE THAT THERE NEVER WOULD HAVE
BEEN ANY ABRAHAM LINCOLN HEARD OF outside
of some foolish club some financial scheming.
If parents could have HELPERS in their houses; if
they could have associated with them FRIENDLY
DIVIDING THE COMFORT WITH THEM that would
be good thing for the parents and the children.
But there is no greater curse upon child than the
curse of the milionaires child today.
One of the richest men in the United States said not
''The greatest problem that and such men as have
is to bring up boy that he won't be hopeless failure
by the time he's twenty-one
Wealth hurts children because it surrounds them with
servants that sycophans because they HAVE be
serve Wealth makes the child feel itself superior to the
grown It destroys reverence and respect stunts the
childs mind
In the foolish house Of foohshy rich it is
common sight to see grownup men and women bitterly
quarrelng with each other as to which one SHALL
MOST EFFECTIVELY PLATTER A CHILD THREE
Or FOUR YEARS OLD. What chance has such a child?
How can survive such distorted ideas Of its mpor
lance and Of the world in general?
The fortunate child the child that waits for the hour
when its father returns from work. to be lifted in its
fathers arms and to be THE REWARD FOR HIS HARD
DAY AND HIS SELF DENIAL
Don't worry for your children because you have no
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