Milford chronicle., 1926-06-04
LOVE KNOWETH NO FEAR
Mrs. NestOr Noel

All tell your mother" is a threat
used by the eldest daughter to her
brothers and sisters or by one girl TO
another. IN report to your mOtner," b"
is the sterner way in winch teachers
voice the same lGea.
Only the other day, l saw a group
of children playing quite harmlessly
together. 1nelr play was certainly
innocent enough, with just that spice
OF mischief in il which makes our
children real children.
Suddenly one girl exclaimed, "Oh,
my brother has seen me. I'll have to
go or he'll tell my mother"
Would she be CROSSE" asked an
other girl.
The first speaker made a wry face
that was sufficient answer.
Would your mother mind?" asked
one OF the group turning towards a
twelVe-year-old girl.
"Oh, no." was the quick answer.
MY mother would call it fun!"
knew at once that this girl had
the right kind of mother. 1 read it
in the smile which lit up her face as
she mentioned that mother.
Why should our children fear us?
If we are real chums with them,
they will not do so. 1 have seen chill
dren frightened because they tore
their clothes getting blackberries!
What would their mothers say when
they reached home?
Ii those mothers had been sensi-
iblo women, and especially if they
had ever picked blackberries them
selves, they would merely have
mended the rents! If they had
known beforehand where their chill
dren were going, sensible women
would have started them out in old
Overalls. No mother with q grain of
sense will scold children for what
they cannot help. Clothes must get
worn and torn. 1t is so absurd to
make a child afraid, just because
she has torn her dress!
A child who is scolded for a torn
dress will seldom tell of a slight
tear, and it is liable to get worse be-
cause it was not mended at once. La
ter on, if that girl has a sorrow, she
is not likely to go to her mother in
her grief. Why should she turn to
her who from earliest infancy has
been a person to fear? 1t is inconsis-
tent to expect a child to fear and
love you at the same time; for per-
feet love knOweth no fear.
When my little girl tears any
thing, she tells me at once. We often
laugh over the way it got torn; then
we see how it can be mended.
Sometimes, through force of cir
cumstances, our children have to
leave u,.~It may be that they have a
living to make. We shall dread their
going much less if we have brought
them up by love instead of fear. We
shall feel that they will always
write and tell us everything. Alas!
how many children leave their par-
ents without line. year after year.
Let us try to understand our chill
dren. by going back in our memory
to what we once were. Remembering
this, we shall realize that the best.
indeed the only way, to bring up a
child is by love-the love that know
eth no fear.
During the Russo-Japanese War.
the Mikado sent forth this message:
Let there be no conscription of
school teachers. no Communicating
Of school property; for twenty years
hence Japan will need wiser citi-
zens than she now has" This did
indeed show wisdom and prudent
foresight. We do not need money to
preserve our nation yet we often
hear it said. eve cannot afford kin
dergartens." Our country cannot af-
ford not to have them. Be sure that
the children of your community are
provided for. The National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West Forteith
Street. New York, will aid anyone
wishing to get a kindergarten es-
tablished Write for information and