The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 August 1935 — Page 7

THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 19.35.

Little Lights on LIVING © By MARIA LEONARD Dean of Women. University of Illinois C Weetern Newspaper Cnion. HOW TO TRAIN CHILDREN FOR LEISURE TO BE successful in anything these days one needs training because competition is so keen. If one had five centuries to live one might be con tent to progress by the trial and error method. We should build on the ex periences of the past, though Piston proves that tnan : moves slowly along this line. Our present-day status re : garding war would be enough to prove this statement Learning comes through two avenues to the child, namely, precept and prac j tlce from the small house duties up ■ through the professions. Today a certain part of child life Is neglected I from precept and practice, which need* j as much direction and guidance as their schooling. This Is their play. time Play is an important and necessary part of every one's life. It Is not Idle ness nor is It unoccupied time, for it j recreates physically and mentally. If I It falls to do this It -wreck rentes" j and breaks, rather than re-creates and • builds. For this reason It is necessary to train children In part of their play , time, making it M educational ns the! other hours of their day. Planned! play by parents, rich or poor, is a powerful force in character building A friend of mine who has three sons. | seventeen, fourteen and ton. wondered what to do with them when school closed. I suggested to her to. let them use the basement to build book shelves for their den. It may cost a little, but j It saves more tn character, by keeping them busily happy and happily busy. Children should be taught In part of their playtime to be Industrious and ’ Inventive—for loving and knowing how I to work is a blessed heritage. They ] should be given tools an<f materials to :play and work with Instead of finished, painted toys, soon laid aside when thej thrill Is gone. This learning bow to do things and how to make things trains head, hand and heart, at the samel time It gives the child a sense of! achievement £ Much In modern life today tends to I make our children laxy and blase as! they ait Idly and Hstleasly. listening to j the radio, auto ridtng. or watching a ‘ ‘ movie. Training for leisure enables them to grow stronger intellectually as I well as physically In their playtime. Are we directing this creative en. of our children for their coming leisure • so that they may enjoy the things that will enrich them throughout their lives? • • • WHERE THE FAMILY FAILS ENGRAVED lb stone on the doorway of the law building, of an Eastern university is the silent but powerful message. "Be who enters selfishly here endangers. * This Is certainly true of the profession of law and of medicine. In fact of all professions, including that most responsible profession of them all—parenthood. Our American home has suffered greatly from without and within this quarter of a century. Causes and results have become hopelessly interwoven In helping to destroy the home's momentous influence, through easy divorces. childless homes, bandbox apart ments. promulgated heresies of mar rlage through literature and screen. However, the basic ailment of the whole world from, nation to individual Is selfishness — self-aggrandUement. selfish interests. The golden rule has become leaden—do for yourself and let others do likewise. This doctrine has permeated some of our American homes. At a fairly recent Parent Teacher* stats meeting tn one of our most intellectual Eastern states, the president made an eloquent appeal tor parents, fathers and mothers to spend one evening each week with their children, reading or playing tn the home circle or at a movie. Asking for a rising vote of promise from this audience of 900 parents she could hardly suppress her disappointment when only 75 men and women stood to pledge this much of their time from their own pleasure plans to really become acquainted with their children. Two years ago Roger Babson told us that more money was spent for automobiles in the last three and one half years than had been spent for homes In the last 150 years. Could It be that pleasure is becoming the pivot of American home s life rather than the rearing of children? When parents* Interests turn In on their own pleasures, their children's interests turn out of the home, so that children themselves lose enjoyment and become bored with an evening at home. If one figures approximately the waking hours from childhood to cc'»<*ge age. seventeen, about I.OUO h. .rs are spent in Sabbath school, around 11.000 hours tn the public schools, leaving 80.000, nearly 87 per cent of childhood and adolescence un der the influence and responsibility of the home. How can parents give the child momentum enough In hl* first six years to carry him through life from home lessons of character and religion, if some of our parents are so absorbed In their own selfish Interests that they are unwilling to spend even one evening a week with their growing children? nourished «X>o B. C. The people who lived on the mound lepe Gawra—l4 miles from the Biblical city of Nineveh—flourished at about 4000 R C. in the dim twilight 9t history, says the Philadelphia Record. At the time they were making their painted pottery and carving obai dlan, the ancestors of the Greeks were crouched In caves during their own Stone age and only savages were living tn the Americas. It was 800 yearn before the Ecyptian* would begin to think <» ttum to form

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