"SQUARE DEALS" FOR CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1924, Page 9

"SQUARE DEALS" FOR CHILDREN

TEST CHARTS FOR PARENTS,

, Begianing with an account .of the ■proceedings in a Court wherein a man was condemned to death, a writer in'the "San Francisco Chronicle" proceeds to show how environments ,and up-bringing may bring a man to the gallows, or make him one of the assets the world. Attached to this vivid account of misery or hope is a test chart to show mothers and fathers if their children are being given a proper chance in life. Following are the seventeen questions which need an answer from every parent:— 1. Have you studied the child's physical, mental, and social heredity, and are you training him in such a way as to strengthen' What isgood and -overcome what is bad? ' -." .. 2. Has your child had a physical and psychological examination? ■•: 3. Are' you taking into . consideration in the child's training the.fact that the physical affects the mental and'the mental affects the physical condition? 4. Remembering that a child learns through imitation, have you examined into your daily Hying to see whether your family is getting a grfod example as regards Regularity of living^ self-con-trol, courtesy, consideration for others, etc.? - .' ' . - ,■'"'" 5. Are yon forming healthy, mental, and physical habits as regards eating, getting up and going to bed, ■ sleeping, bathing, dressing, working, mode of speaking, social forms, etc.? •' :: 6. Is your child free from^bad habits, such as sucking his thumb, holding his breath .when angry, crying to get his own w.ay, . biting his nails, lisping, stammering, etc? ■■■•''.-.' /".,'.' 7; Are you encouraging calmness, equanimity, emotional control, cheerfulness, and happiness under the disappointments of-daily life, and discouraging' any tendency to moodiness . and sulkiness? . . 8. Are you rooting ;out unhealthy'! emotions; jealousy, the cause of many 'unfair criticisms; suspicion, the forerunner of persecuting ideas; depression, the paralyser; anxiety, fear, anger, rage, worry, discontent, and resentment, the basis of many nervous, disturbances; I and in place are you planting the healthier emotions of sympathy, cheerfulness', contentment, etc\? .. ' 9. Are you teaching the child that duty and principle, not alone his own. preferences and approval of others, should direct his actions? ,'■:'-..' 10. Are you preventing .' your child from hanging, as it were, on your skirts, and so allowing him 'to grow up lacking in\ independence and initiative? .Are you _ suppressing _ any autocratic tendencies in yourself or in any member of your family? . '"'-.-. 11. Are you training your child to he neither too responsive nor too resistant in his attitude? 12. Are you teaching your child id become" a part of the community in which he lives—getting what is good in his environment and avoiding what ;s bad? ' '13. Are yon properly storing-, and enriching the. sub-conscious in your'child aud "avoiding the building up of com<plekcs? /'. .. J, ''• • „- ' : i 4. Do you' guide your child's piny'? . 15.'- Arc you guarding against lying, petty, thieving, running away, fighting, cruelty,, and all.other inoipient delinquent acts? .••-.. 16. Are you punishing your child to develop character and not to relieve your s own feelings ?■■■■"■ -~ 17.- re you seeking to become acquainted with your child's emotional and intellectual life by being alwavsa sympathetic listener?. " t