Evening star., 1937-10-02
Trouble Due
To Parents.
Not Child
Training at Right
Time Will Save
Pain Later On.
EY ANGELO PATRI.

HEkE Is always, IN every pnaSe 0f
life. just the right time. If one
does the work that the time admits,
even demands, there is every hope of a
perfect return Seed sown in season.
plants fed and watered on time. the
/ harvest is more certain if gathered on
time
There is A nice sense of discrimina-
ton involved in all this. Just when
does one know it is the right time? One
never knows anything certainly, but
experience does tell something. and
if it is coupled with the wish to
learn and to work hard at the task in
hand. one can make working guess
which will come close to rightness.
Children grow steadily forward, but
they do not maintain an even speed in
their growth and they do not grow all
of piece. They grow fast and then
they grow slowly. and at all the rates
in between. They grow their bodies in
bits, here and there. and they grow
their minds in patches Their growth
seems to be most irregular and quite
uncertain. but in reality it is according
to a perfect plan hidden from us,
waiting for our discovery. like all other
plans of the Creator One can study
and watch and work and hope and be
fairly certain of the result provided
always one works on time.
Parents and teachers are hurried.
busy people occupied with the grave
concerns of their duties The children,
growing under their eyes. escape notice
until all Of a sudden" something
happens that brings them to the CEN
ter Of attention. They have done
something unusual, perhaps startling,
and their astonished elders call upon
high heaven to behold the vagaries
Of this child. There are no vagaries.
Just normal growth that goes on with
out our sight or understanding The
time for our attention passed without
our seeing or knowing the need
This is why adolescent children
give their people so much trouble at
times. When, in their early growth.
they developed some race-old phase
of growing something that should have
been Of passing concern only. nobody
took notice. the phase fingered became
habit marked enough to annoy some
body or frighten somebody. Then
what is to be done? The season has
passed for changing this growth easily.
Now 1t means pruning and a re-
growth. trying experience for all con-
cerned
When a little child shows temper.
nnd the cause and make losing the
temper unnecessary. When he pliers.
find the cause and remove it. then and
there. not when he teaches the age of
marriage. When a child betravs sell
flshness. begin training him that dav
not after years of self-indulgence
When child is bad-mannered. u1tidv.
careless of all responsibility begin
training him the day he first cheeks
MS mother, or leaves his things for her
to pick up, or forgets to do the chore
assigned him. not when he is an ado
lescent rebelling against all restric-
ton.
Train children in season. Don't
expect the 3year-old TO assume full
responsibility for himself. but don't
wait until he is 30 before letting him
feel the responsibility he bears toward
his family. his friends and his COM
munity. Teach children what they
ought 10 learn, at the right time. They
will learn easily then what they must
acquire painfully later on.