Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-28
IN THE REGINNING.

Dear Social Corner Friends: Life is | just a game, but ones success depends on being tapght the rules in the begin ming, and not in being left to find them cut by sad experience.
 1T you are beginning as a teacher or a parent just remember that the princi- ples that govern human beings are as fixed and unchangeable as the principles | of electricity or numbers or anything else.
 The child learns what he sees and hears in his surroundings and it is our ! part to be sure that he knows the ideas that he will need in life, and that he is l! forewaFned and prepared to shun the traps and temptations that have brought Co so many and may to him also. 1 We unintentionally and unconsciously teach the young child to understand and speak the language we use, but we should al the same time teach him 70 lfead it. We have not done this as we ought because it takes conscious effort and much of cur time and patience The principal trouble with our schools is this sap in tho childs education before school age.
 After the child can talk he should con tiHue 10 learn the fundamental facts without any break in his education During these first years he knows without any conscious effort on his part lanythiRg that he sees, hears and is in iterested in.
 He likes real true stories and pictures The best books for him now are illus ltrated geographies and histories.
 Just tell the explanation Of each pic ture in simple words and short sen tonces and see how soon he will be tell ing them.
 T-ntn the child can read he has nt way Of learning except through others
 and so strong Is the habit of contin -'ng the first way of doing, that somt never learn much in any other way thai what they are told by others.
 Az soon as possible he should beeom accustomed to get his facts from hi reading for himself, with very little hell from others; just enough help to se that he understands correctly.
 ] have just been reading a fine arti .e n one of the magazines on Mother Hag It said in part: To mothers 0 -olre children Mothers day might D examination day !n home government
 or all the brands of democracy fo which the world is to be made safe. in ! home is likely 10 have tue smallest share Mothers who are loathe to believe lshould see If they have ever heard o said the sentences below: Do this he toausa mother tells you to-" Don't le ! me have to speak to you again DO g mother telis you and say no more abou it" Mind mother and don't ask an taue7tions." This insistence on bin c1elionce !s autoeratie and the govern
 nent in the home as in the nation shout 'r democratic and as reasonably aduair fste~ed in the home as Tn the nation.
 Mother ie the beloved interpreter, bJ
 not tha dictator.
 Mother earht other to have tauri her children not obsdierce to her. br it obedience to truth. Motherhood may !
 the most unselfsh or the most aut,
 cratic of all relationships.
 The child has just as much ability 1 reason es the adult. but he has nt been here louR enought to know whit l. things are right and safe for him to {
 and which are wrong and dangerous.
 We have 10 explain, but not give con n1ardz without the reasons. For he o not developing charac4 {" unless i s knows why he does things. lT JEREMY.