PARENTS AND CHILDREN

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 91, 17 November 1939, Page 3

PARENTS AND CHILDREN

"There can be less doubt still, however, that in many cases parents sliirk the duty" and forfeit both the pleasure and reward of keeping intellectually alert for the sake of their children, not perceiving what ill-effects upon their children's moral and physical growth this selfsatisfied conservation of theirs may have. It is their privilege to remain the intellectual friends and companions of their boys and girls, adding to their own knowledge and extending their own thought as far as they have opportunity, but not hesitating to accept from their own children truth for which there is sound evidence, though they themselves may not otherwise have become acquainted with it. At least the adolescent must be able to feel that discussion with his parents will be fair, openminded and generous, though in the end he and they may agree to differ. Unless he can do so there will be a widening . gulf between them and him, not only in religious belief, but in all the subtle relationships which demand mutual respect and confidence."—Dr Basil Yeaxlee in "Religion And the Growing Mind."