The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-24
Latest Styles
Your Children
GOOD RESOLUTIONS FOR
 PARENTS.
By Olive Roberts Barton
They,re FOr Child,s weIfare

WxlCl1 gkAC CACAtCA11CAtt Ol NlL1 1ot~ mas is over, immediately comes New Years to bring us to our sober senses.
 Parents are the greatest "re- [solvers" in the world. Scarcely a day of the year passes on which parents do not pledge themselves to try new ways with their families But 'the better the day, the better the deed," and January 1st is an suspicious time for beginnings. In the following list, why not choose one thing to guide you in everyday life, parents? Perhaps you don't need to turn over new leaf But with a little thought, perhaps you do.
 Some are don't" and some are "do's." A little consideration and time may show up the very point where weakness of administration lies.
 Serve Breakfast Early.
 Go to bed early enough each night so you will be rested enough for tomorrow's work. Rest is the mother of endurance and patience and health.
 See that the school child gets at LEAST nine hours sleep. The pre-school child from eleven to thirteen hours Gin alb each day.
 Serve breakfast early enough so they won't have to run, half lf-awake, half-fed, and half-dressed, to school One such day can upset the home machinery for week.
 Go to early movies. Make it fashionable among your friends to give early evening parties so you can be home and in bed by eleven.
 That bottle of cod-liver oil! You've been intending to get it but always forgot. The baby of today has to have it; the weak child should have it; the malnourished. one must have it.
 Keep defense and health built up. Johnny has an infection per- haps, in throat, or ear or teeth; you've put of seeing about it, and he isn't at all well. There is no better time than the present to at- tend to it.
 When any of the children get sick, see that no other child goes into the room.
 Give the school child a quiet, well-lighted place to do somework Encourage him to do it at a regu- lar hour each day. Be interested in it-and him.
 Have a jolly time with the chil- dren. Dad, show them you are human. Save funny little stories to tell them. Learn to know your family. Set them on your knee once in awhile. Maybe Johnny is twelve. All right. You aren't too weak to listen as well as talk. Don't have they feel that your only con- versation with them is Stop" and Don't"
 Shield Them From Worries.
 Don't talk over business worries or dangers of threatened security before them, especially if they are little.
 Ao TUT ldnlly -Uuu6CGAle dhAQ cooperation in thrift, that is dif- ferent.
 Teach the children work hab- its" early, by little jobs of their own at home. Regulate these jobs SO Mary and John will still have plenty of free time.
 Give them a course in safety" Street-dangers, fire, exposure to weather, and risks of health.
 Correct speech is a great item in training. Use it and see that they do, too.
 If the household is slack on courtesy and manners, take up the slack.
 There may be in this list one helpful suggestion or perhaps more. One resolution made, and persisted in, is worth dozens half-heartedly made and whole-heatedly forgotten pledges.
 Copyright, 1885. NEA Service, Incl.