The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-09
WHAT SHALL PARENTS SAY OR DO WHEN
 THE CHILD ASKS WHY?

Certainly there Is lot or nooey marNe.vu | these days in the name of psychology especlahy | along the line of child training and mental ny giene. Most of the hooey emanates, think, from authorities experts or specialists who nave | never had any kids of their own but who know nevertheless all about the management ana up-
 bringing of children These wise olrds pegin ,,,s Ds them enough rope and an audience of amateur or hypothetical parents and first thing we know | they're teaching 'em all about health ana the treatment of common ailments.
 One of the best bets of these latter day psychologists Is the rule that you mus, @ d that unless you explain the reason for the commano prohibition. This is good rule so Tar as IL ap- plies to idle thoughtless nagging. IT the nag ging parent has to give reason for every nag, well. the nagging won't go on very iong' because the honest parent or guardian will feel ashamed of himself when he realizes he has no good req
 But the trouble with this glib popular psychol- oev is that the few sound scientific principles on which the whole structure is built are carried 10 absurd extremes by both practitioners and their
 Recently said believe temperate smoking by adults neither injures health nor opposes lon gevity but any smoking by fnl aat de velopment physically mentally and moraly-is ruinous to health and shortens life ,.
 That brought letter from a much too gentle mother. She asked if would please interpret my statement about smoking in simple language Her son had developed the smoking habit in | boarding school, and she thought he might listen to me with greater respect that ne ooes 10 an
 
 The young imp would listen if could get one good crack at him. think. - Here is case where only one explanation will do The explanation is that mother for some req son or other would like to have her son keep pledge that he will not smoke or drink neiore .ne mann can ask. Even if mother wanted the boy to pink neckties or to take no syrup on his pancakes until the age of 30, If he has any man hood in him at all he'll do as she wishes and grin at all the world that wants him to do otherwise Yeah, and I wonder where the spoiled child's old man is all this time? If the boy is taking up the smoking habit at fourteen. heaven defend the country from the sort of a scamp the induigent father will be bailing out six or eignt years hence.
 not enough in such cases, then say give em the SN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 The ImpcrviOus Skin
 If inc skin docs not absorb, why do get pois- incd with poison ivy on my arms or any part oI my body? How about lead poisoning in printer. plaster blister the slxin-do you say the mustard Is inhaled and then goes through the blood to the spot where the blister riscsy we rea6 , your c, c,s
 hut some of your theories we can not swallow without . grain of salt. CD. !. WI
 does not absorb anything. No scientist has thus far been able to prove that anything is ever ab.
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 Jon of fumes of molten lead or through swallow Ing the lead in one form or another--as In dust In certain dusty trades. The poison IVY and the mustard blister the skin just as 2 hot coal might. Yorr trouble. my friend, ts that your brains arc steeped in tradition Just because good old doctors have always imagined semethins might be absorbed through tho normal skin wt can't accept that fancy as a fact.
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