Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-09-28
Faith Essential
If Youngsters
Trust Parents
. MISTAKES WILL HAP
pen and children often re-
greet them as much as their
parents. Confidence comes
much easier if child is sure
he will receiue fair treatment
for self-admitted mistakes.
BY MARION BROWNFIELD


prepared the soapy dishwater and
placed second pan to rinse the
dishes in. All the time, however,
one ear was straying toward the
pleasant conversation nearby. Moth
er was across the hall putting the
last stitches on dress Betty was
to wear on the morrow, and the lit
tie girl was dawdling in order to
enjoy the chat Daddy was having
with the "company.'
Suddenly, Betty breathed pro-
longed, "Oh-!"
Daddy's head appeared in the
kitchen doorway. Break some
thing?" he inquired.
''The hot water did!" explained
Betty replacing tea kettle of hot
water on the stove.
The guests in the breakfast room
smiled at the explanation. But Bet
ty bravely held up cracked tum-
bier.
"Too bad" said Daddy sympa-
thetically.
"I'd better go and tell Mother"
Betty marched gravely out of the
kitchen.
''I'd give anything if my boy,
George, would own up when some
thing like that happens" remarked
Cousin Harriet. 81 scold him and
scold him, but it doesn't seem to
make any impression"
"H'm," said her husband, sit
makes him afraid to confess"
Betty, back in the kitchen, ap-
preached the breakfast room door,
holding the cracked tunnbler. She
smiled at her father. "Mother says
I must be sure to have the rinsing
water cool enough to put my finger
in. But she says not to worry about
this particular glass, because it was
a cheap one." Betty resumed her
dishwashing humming softly to her
self.
"Well, it's sort of habit, I think"
her father said in an undertone to
his relatives, "this Tossing up but
Betty's mother never makes it hard
for child to tell her anything. She
says confidence is the one thing she
wants from the children. And we
find that they themselves are as
regretful over mistake or an acct
dent as we are. We simply talk it
over and sometimes, not too often,
use it as basis for future re-
hinder to avoid repetition.
Honesty Is Natural for Ted.
"When we gave Ted his new BIZ
cycle told him to be careful where
he parked it-not to leave it long in
unfamiliar surroundings. He was
pretty careful the first month. Then
he forgot one day and left his wheel
in vacant lot down near the rail-
road tracks, while he pitched an
impromptu ball game"
"And it was stolen?" inquired
Cousin Harriet.
"No; when he went for it, appar-
emily it was all right. Then he dis
covered about half dozen of the
parts were gone!"
"Well," said Cousin Harriet's hus-
band, 81 expect he didn't relish tell
ing you'll"
"No," said Ted's father with
laugh, che didn't. He commenced,
though, by saying, You were right,
Dad, about my bike.
cts expensive" complained
Cousin Harriet, "the things these
youngsters do; I would whip George
if he disobeyed me like that!'
Teds father shook his head.
''That's out of date, Harriet. I said
to Ted, What happened, Son?' He
then told me just what had happened
and what was missing. Well, told
him it was his job to earn back those
missing parts.
I've been thinking it over, Dad,'
he said, so I asked Mrs. Clark,
down the street, if I could NOV her
lawn, and she said she would like to
have her car cleaned. It'll be every
two weeks, Dad!'"
"To have to work for something,
like that, will make man of him!"
approved Cousin Harriet's husband
eve must CO." Cousin Harriet
arose
Betty hurried from the kitchen and
soon returned. mother wants you
to see my new dress!" she said.
Cousin Harriet looked around the
kitchen. 1t was Enthusiastically in or
der. "Your wife must take lot of
time and trouble training the chill
dren." She sighed.
Betty's father hesitated. How
much dared he say? "Well, an
ounce of prevention he ven
tured. "But after all, children are
people-they are seldom intentional
miscreants-that is if you treat them
as if you expected them to be re-
sponsible.-If well-take it for
granted, you know"
National kindergarten Association
(WNU Service)