The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1922-03-16
DEVELOPING GOOD JCDG-
MENT n CHILDREN


inF ih TIE home. No business tern
or course 20 mlemau ship and tech.
. uique can ever quite overcome the hab-
SIS and mind development acquired
while the individual w. passing
through childhood and the most i'm
+ pres sionablc years a. his existence
One Monday morning / discovered
that ] was cot q laundry soap because
Jennie. our laundrcss, had not reported
the fact before she left the previous
week There vas just time for Robert
70 20 10 the store before school Get
Eve bars Of NJ Z. Laundry Soap" !
told him as he started on. Meanwhile
Jennie sat around waiting, all because
she hadn't told me about the empty
soap box the week before. However.
while this fact is not exactly the point
! am making in this article. yet never
thcless il proves that Jennie had not
been taught to use her judgment when
she was small
But 20 20 back to Robert. In the
course Of time he appeared in the
kitchen with empty hands. had told
him to get NJ. b Laundry Soap but the
store had none, and although the
grocer wanted him to bring the next
best he decided not to spend his money
for something ! hadn't told him 10 get.
Now Robert is nine years old, ard he
knew that the washing could not begin
until we had the soap. But there
were only twenty minutes between
then and school time, so ! dispatched
Jennie herself for the soap and used
ten minutes in trying 70 impress upon
Robert when NOT to conform 70 i'm
plicit obedience ! showed him how to
reason that the washing was soaking.
And that there wasn't any soop IL the
house. Jennie wes waiting. The
clothes had to be washed. And to get
them clean We must use soap.
Now il would have been much sier
to have said "Oh, Robert, run clong to
school; you DO use such poor judg-
ment" But some day Robert is going
70 work FOR an employer. And that
employer viii lot always be on hand
70 tell him what 70 do when the right /.
kind u material Is not available. Tat /
employer viii hire him for that very
purpose, namely TO do his thinking for
him and take some Of the resp nsibil- (
ity Of his dep rtmont We can't al I
ways get the kind Of soap we ask for
in this world, and we must make quick
decisions and wise ones in choosing the
next best thing.
But | was rewarded the very next
week The so p ordeal m &c It's inn
preston on Robert.
One evening Daddy" telephoned
out that hewas bringing home a guest
for supper My first thought was, No
bread" So | sent Robert TO the store
for two loaves Of bread. But il was
late 10 the day ard the store had moth
ing left but graham bread Robert
walked out and started home, then he
Enthusiastically reheeted-as | had
TO him. There was no bread
IN the house. A guest was due.
Something in the nature Of bread food
was necessary. SO he returned to the
store and said he would take the
graham bread Two loaves ?" asked
he grocer Again Robert used his
brains. Our family does not care for
graham bread. SO we would not want
my left over for the next day, and he
anne home with one loaf. | was so
pleased ! could have Rugged him for
oy If hadn't been in such a dreadful
lurry 10 get a hasty meal prepared.
But the next day had nice talk with
Robert, and | found that he had roas-
med about the bread question just as
lave indicated above, and he said,
Mother, I would have come home
without ANY bread and the store
would have been closed before you
ould send me back, If 1T HAD NOT
BEEN FOR THE SOAP"
How | did feel repaid for taking ,
hat few minutes on busy Monday
morning to explain How to Use Good
Judgement!
Mothers and teachers can recall in
tauce after instance similar TO the two !
mentioned when a child had 70 make '
IN independent decision. II he had
cen wisely trained he made wise
ecision II not, he probably came {
.ome without The soap. II pays 10
ave patience and spend ht.'s tirie
eaChing logic even to The tots. '
.vcntually the time saved rs uch in
lruction viii be multiplied . hundred
Old. and even though We get 70 I'M d
lodiate results, We owe il 70 the {
lture Of the boy and girl 70 expcnd a
bis energy in stress.nE the vital I'M