FAULTFINDING AND GRUMBLING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 15 July 1911, Page 11

FAULTFINDING AND GRUMBLING.

Do not be a grumbler or a faultfinder. This advice applies to everyone, in every sphere of life, but especially to parents and housekeepers. There are, perhaps, heavy burdens to bear all day—manifold cares from the rising to the setting of the sun—blunders made by those why should have known better, many and many a thing to annoy; but don't make cold and cheerless the home atmosphere by fiding fault. There is no blight more deadly in its tendency—nothing that can more surely disturb the harmony of home, nothing that will recoil more quickly upon yourself—than this habit of faultfinding. Not that errors should go unrebuked, or mistakes uncorrected; but note such down in your memory, and when the work, the care, *nd tumult of the day are all over, then call the offenders to you, and tell them soberly but kindly of the wrongdoings, and see if you are not amply repaid for your forbearance by the smile and the tear and the little word of contrition and Promise of amendment. You will be a thousand times happier when you lie down to sleep, and a sweet forgetfulness has settled over your little flock, than you would have been had the blue eyes now closed been filled with bitter tears that overflowed at unkind censure, or had the little golden head drooped under the shadow of your constant frown. How fair, and sweet, and satisfying life might be to us all if we would forget to fret, and find fault, and complain. Don t save your words of praise and appreciation until it is too late. You Jove the little children—the dear little children! And if they do speak loud, and leave doors open that should be shut, and disturb the order of the house, don't find fault.