Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-30
Fer cH|LDS
 |ssESs!0NS, AND BE CONSISTENT
|ronnot Be Taught Prop
 |ITn1ess His Treatment Is Just.
lpv Helen Wilson.)

o wonder that during infancy
 II, lu childhood life's lessons are
 .,,1t for the small beginner
 ,s a'' laws which govern them
 n to to him just or unjust, con-
 inconsistent, according to
 wledge or the caprice of tha
 Gministering them.
 pf the first lessons which the
 E;ld M should learn is the proper
 hi his own possessions and re-
 Ir M those of others, and a moth
 +be first opportunity to incul-
 < important life lesson.
 one of the strongest instincts
 Ihild y is to initiate, there seems
 logical way to teach this les-
 n by example. If a mother
 her child not to touch the
 on her desk or dressing table
 her permission, then has she
 Iii to dispose of his toys with
 permission?
 writer recalls an instance mother secretly put away a hich has been given to her
 irl, and, for no reason except
 e child already had a number and this particular one was {autifully dressed to be played htil the child was older."
 her common way of disregard
 children's rights is to force o give up some new or much possession. For example, a kirl of six, who was delighted he gift of a dolls fan, was by her mother to hand it to keaming baby in order to quiet lin his excitement he soon ] the tiny toy, his screams in- b, and his little sister was Ehearted! : Nor had the unjust |ort-sighted mother "saved the which she had hoped to avert. bach of these cases the child have been consulted and her |sion given before the mother ed of the plaything. In this De mother could have explained |asons for her own action, anu lld, in her turn, would have had bortunity of expressing herself, t which should be encouraged. |too, personal responsibility for bssessions and the recognition right of ownership would have sized the difference between and "thine."
 re is no better way to create of orderliness and a sense o1 sibility than by giving the a place for keeping his play
 and then allowing him full of these possessions. v him how to use his books, } take care of his toys, how to \ his pets and. then See to it D has shelf or a small book T his books, a play corner for $, and an appropriate home for Is.
 r playtime require him to put whatever he has been using, him understand the necessity gular attention to his pets. raining will of necessity react his character since possession
 responsibility. Ownership aches generosity, for without slons now can a child learn re?
 ay not be out of place in ad- parents to respect their chi,- possessions to add a warming lalf of the children. Do not nd them with numberless ready avs. Give them blocks, boards, a few tools, hammers, saws, ,spools, scissors, thread, cloth. 'aper, crayons, clay, sand, and They will get more happiness 'hese possessions of construc- 9,ssibilities than from all the toys of the biggest toy shops dhcod has its own way of sec hiking, and feeling, and noth- more foolish than to try to lte our own for them"
 ect your child's right to his lons and he will learn to re- ne rights of others, and, with cognltlon, there will be no fear ', outcome of his place in so- Help to reach all the parents
 country by cutting this out sslng 1t on to friend.