Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1910 — SOME DONT'S FOR MOTHERS [ARTICLE]

SOME DONT'S FOR MOTHERS

No Surer Love Destroyer Than Mother Who Is Chrorile Fault Finder and Bcold. Don’t let yourself grow old in feelings. It means growing away from your children and bitter, lonely hours. Don’t let yourself rust mentally. The growing girl and boy who can have mother help him out in a tight place in his lessons, or can come to her for a dear answer to a perplexing question, rarely gets that disagreeable know-it-all air so common to young America. Don’t try to force your children's confidence. H from the start you have tried to be a chum of your child the confidence will be given unsolicited; those that are asked are given grudgingly and with a sense of resentment, if not actually refused. Don’t let your children Bee that you are disappointed in them. There is no surer road of self-consciousness and the don’t care attitude than if the boy or girl feels that mother thinks him a failure. Don’t, on she other hand, think your progeny prodigies. IMhe child knbws he isn’t he is conscious of embarrassment and being under a strain; if he agrees with the maternal opinion he becomes insufferably conceited. Don’t, whatever else you do or leave undone, don't nag. There is po surer love destroyer than a mother who never lets up, who Tn» g n<fl P « trifles, who is a chronic fault finder asd scold. He children of such a mother rarely are found in the home —ls they can get out of it , I * <** *