The Wrangell sentinel., 1921-02-10

ot c NCiy Cotiy axe, OC8iu eo oo shS things that Mother and Dad do- here arises again the obligation upon the part of the parent to see to it that their example is good for the child. Nearly every parent de- sires their children to excel, to be polite, to have pretty manners but culture and pretty manners cannot be put on at a moments notice like a garment. When man. ners are pleasing they are the re. suit of growth, of every days ex- periences since bahyhood. Chil- dren and grown-ups who are at ease when there is company are the ones to whom it is so natural that they give no thought at all to what they are doing, but are just doing the things they have been taught to do and the things that Mother and Dad do all the time. It is in these very young days that the value of telling the truth must be taught. A child is most imagina- tive and often tells an exaggeration of something that sounds like an untruth-the child does not mean to tell a lie, but an unwise parent often mistakes this desire to be en. tertaining on the part of the child, for willful intent to deceive. The parent has to gently insist that only true facts of what happened shall be told-and If the parent per- sists in this method of gently forcing the child to tell it exactly as it hap pened. in a very short while, the child will form the habit of being truthful. It is a mistake for the parent to fly into a rage and strike a child for such congregations.
 Nearly all young children have this fault. Another grave fault so very often indulged in by unthink. ing parents, is the bad habit of re- beating cute sayings and doings of the child in the child's presence.
 This awakens the child's Vanity and develops all the latent egotism of the human. We all have plenty of it and it needs DO coaxing to crop out at a very early age. Such parents and children become the bores and laughing stock of the neighborhood in which they live.
 Well-so much for the first six years of the child's life-now the clay ot the home is sent to the potter's hand in the schoolroom.
 Just here is where the wonderful teamwork of the Parent-Teachers association can get in its best work.
 Here the teacher can supplement, augment and develop what the home has begun, or she is obliged to undo and replace bad habits with good,
 low ideals with high etc, etc. The teacher cannot wave a wand over a naughty, disobedient, dirty child and make it a good. obedient, clean one. If her pupil comes from a home all equipped with the funda- mental, every day attributes of po- liteness, obedience and cleanliness, such a pupil has an advantage over the child from a. home not so equipped. These fundamentals are possible in any home. It is not necessary to have a lot of money to be truthful, kind and clean. This is all the teacher expects or asks. She can teach-and find great pleas ure in doing so-the child who is bright. attentive and anxious to please. These pupils will excel in their classes, will go on Very fast to success and high marks in scho- larships. They will have the love of the teacher, the admiration of the public and the blessing of the happy parent. Children who have been brought up ID a home where the moral atmosphere is pure, where the thoughts of the parents are clean of vice, where no vulgar story is ever told, where smutty jokes are never repeated-a child brought up in such an atmosphere, rarely ever gives parents or teacher any