The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-03-01
TWO KINDS OF PARENTS

lie showed tnattentlun and oFef-coh
tldence and If he continued as he vas
doing now he would not make his
grade which az everybody believes
teachers aud parents included Is the
limit of defeat Would Father. the |
Teacher wrote. look into the matter
and see Hhat Dick Jr Was doing al
home9
Richard sf. did He promptly look |
ed into what Dick Jr was doing a.
home on his school work and found !
II TO he practically nothing. SO Father
promptly TOOK mp corrective measures
The next day when Dick came TO
sch lol he had his lessons prepared, |
and he brought a note from Father, |
reading something like this
Dear Miss Blank.
Il thank YOU for writing to me about
Dick His mother aud suspected he
was not doing az sell as he should,
and are putting the brakes on his
course We shall require him TO know
his lessons. aud | have told Master
Dick tina, II heard Of your furnishing
him at school and certainly shall
hear he will get something worse
from me when he comes home
Yours Respectfully,
RICHARD BURTON y
Teacher wrote few days later to
Mother about i.adde. Laddie not on
IL never knew his lessons. but he did
no, study them, lie was impairment
to Teacher. and rude and even cruel
TO some of bis playmates Wouldn
Mother help Teacher do something
about 10 In reply Mother promptly
wrote
Miss Blank
4 was much surprised al your com.
plants about l.addie II has the sweet
est disposition Of alI my children AMI
Is never disrespectful TO me As for
his lessons, | think II you were kinder
Ia Laddie. you could get better Wotg
out of him
Yours truly,
Mrs DASH =
The Teacher threw up her hands
Kinder when he takes kindness as
an indication Of weakness And when
every teacher he has ever had makes
the same complaints abou, him."
What about l.hddie being kinder 10
teacher Suppose Mother suggested
that TO him and IL could he seen how
that worked n q boy " taught 10 show
geHiIemanIy consideration for his
eaehef. he learns lesson better than
bis textbooks something that will
stand By him soul strength all his
life And II parents would take thpt
attitude towards their boys behavior
in school AZ we'll as In cher places,
they would help much In successful
school administration. while bringing
up their boys 10 be- gentlemen The
boy who is rude to his teacher ac-
auiFes n eoarseness that will make
him rude 10 his wife, IL not actually
unktnd and cruel
One of the sweetest memories |
have Of my sons childhood" mother
said. is Of when he was a small boy
aud went to little school In the
neigh bofhood He had been punished
ler something. which ! myself secret
~ bought anJustly. 80 shen he
came heme and pat his brown head
on my breas, and cried. telling me all
agout II. | said But why Didn't yen
say something To Miss Minnie"
oh Mamma" vas his reply i could
moi say that to a LADY,"
SO. i, IN. the child may suffer trtyi.
nj injustice from teacher ia the
hurry Of her school duties. but his
obedience. his consideration for her
because she Is q woman is an experl.
ence that endures The rule OF greater
punishment Al home Go follow school
punishment which some parents shrink
| from, because af some possible in.
| justice en the part Of the teacher, IL
nevertheless a COED one The teacher
makes mistakes who does notF--but
they are not so frequent as TO make
parents unduly tender In advance OF
their offspring. and II Is certainly true
that homes where punishment fol
lows promptly upon school dellnauen-
eies are the homes that send out the
most atndious and we'll behaved chill
| dren
The two letters illustrate the twe
kinds Of parent
Which kind are you9
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