THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1959.
PRESENTING A 20-YEARS-FROM-NOW PREVIEW THAT WILL INTRIGUE EVERY PARENT
Will YOUR child
THE children's party comes to its up- roarious end, and the parental cars arrive to take the guests home. Through the final melee surges the hostess lead- ing Peter, aged six, by the hand,
"ill haven't got all their names rorted out,” she says, "but this one's yours. Anyone could eve that. Just the sume shin. And the nose loo,"
So your son is like you?
Not necessarily so. The fact that strangers can identify hi with you merely means be look, like you. It does not follow that his personality is developing, to be like your own.
One of many How much will your children be like you when they grow up? Every day a child's character grows and changes. And the parents' influence on it is only one of meay competing elements. There is his school, his friends, what he reads, what he sees vi
TV.
grow
How
Let him see who's
mester....
much impact do you - make on what goes on behind that somelines innocent and - Lometimes not-so-huncrest young
face?
moulding his Are you character Fo that It in clearly Rentifiable with yours?
Your answers to the questions below will help you to find out.
Do you feel that deilnquenti are deal with too softly these days?
(a) Yes,
(b) No.
up like
Ilow would you deal with
A young child'
tantrum?
temper
(a) Make sure he knows
who is master?
(b) Inure it?
1low strictly
were
yourself' brought up?
You
(a) More sirletly than most
chiktren.
(b) Less strictly than most
children.
(c) About the
other children.
same
An
4 Do you think 11 is a sign
of weakness to admit you have changed your mind? (a) Yes. (b) No.
Which do you think is the more important for a child to learn?
(a) Tolerance,
(b) Obedience.
How do you feel when you
O uddrate fnd yourself
minority of one?
a
(a) You wonder if you are
really right after all. (b) "I don't care if they
The British paradox
I
London.
a country like Britain which lists scientifle know-how high on its export, list it is paradoxical that inventors have such a thin time of it.
They seldom reap fortunes, and recognition, if it comes at
neglected
all, usually comes late. Often their. Inventions lic because the people who could explot them do not have The necessary Imagination.
Repeatedly Bish ploneering
work has been taken over und
„Peter Burgoyne's.
NEWS FROM BRITAIN
developed by other countries to would cnable it to glide down cosmopolitan
1
London's
Press
everything
the point where its origins are even where the air was thin. corps can look forward toga, forgollen.
It is iso claimed that all heat future spiked with You might think
that
the generated by friction with the from sake to fermented yok's
would be carrick milk. lesson had been learned by now. Utmosphere Just how wrong you would be away, ensuring that the machine was demonstrated recently when did not burn up like a meteorite. the Hydrox Fuel Cell was re Scientists liere belleve that is thu British discovery vealed to a selected group of this service chiefs, industrialists and answer to problems currently newspapermen.
being tackled by the Americans and Russians, n
It is to be
Freedom Above
Essentially the fuel cell is battery which Instead of storing patented.
works by power maker it. It
The Hawker Siddeley Aircraft mixing hydrogen and oxygen gas Company, which is operating a
on
The
have
in
All
OR a century and more
fanciers of sea-shanties!
been demanding, Krong Pyramid project, hope that the "what shall we do with the
drunken sailor?"
In a chamber containing nickel development en plate sunning caustic soda.
Dull stuff, you say? Not a bit of it. Level-headed scientists bellove that it would lead to:
CARS which need no retrat, ol), gearbox or clutch
• ELECTRIC TRAINS with-
•
their
Government
back will work with money. So, I bet, does every Briton who wants to see his nation in the space race.
Not A
Word
Seen
The answer has now supplied by the Royal Navy authorities at Portsmouth where drunkenness *mong Tuling ashore has been an increasing
qui all the bother and ex-N almost any country in pense of "live" rails, TROLLEYBUSES requiring
problem. IN
the world if you fired a
.
It is this: Instead of letting the no mase of overhead wires. Kun at a railway carriage, offending matelot get away with SUBMARINES which could shattering the window and a token fine in a dvil cuart and
operato
the
the stoppage of one day's pay under water for spraying
passengers when he comes back hourd, you police o months without surfacing with glass you could expect persuade the elvil to recharpe.
a certain amount of com- hand the men over to the naval
authorities who stop his cave
LORRIES which would be nowceless and fumeless.
motion, many oaths, and withdraw his privilege of fominine swoonings, per wearing civilian clothes ashore. Aanerica and Russia, with all haps the squeal of emer- Since this Aystem went into their tremendous resources, have
operation, drunkenness among ratings has been cut by more been seeking a similar cull cell. gency brakes.
" under than
learned this
Yet the first Working model has
For what imppens
Kevelations On
been turned out by a 54-year-old similar alrcumstances in good week, British scientist, named Thomas old phlomalle Britain let us Bacon at the price of much per turn to Mr D. II. G. Roberts of Fonal sacrifice. He had been Halley Lane, Hertford who working on the Iden since the, wrote--I imagine with pride-to carly thirties.
It was not until 1050 that the his favourite newspaper: "As I was travelling home by train National Research Development last night, someone took a pot- Corporation decided to sponsor shat at us with an air-gun and Bacon's, research.
smashed a window in our com- And while everyone was mak- pariment.
ing the appropriate congratula- **There was a loud crack and tory noises this week Bacon's two of us were mothered with wife was recalling: "Without glass., We stood up, brushed
The Thames
HE trouble with living 1.in London is that one becomes snobbish about sightseeing. Strictly for the
our private means we would glass off ourselves and oft our tourists, one says and as a have had to pack up long ago. 1 seats. We then eat down and result nilsses a lot of the tronder how many other ideas returned to our reading. During fun of being here. have been lost because the in- all this nobody salda ventor has not been able to Well, dammit, sir, they
afford the price of his bellefs."
I wonder, too. And I wonder all the more when I learn that, although an American tiram is the Bacon fuel manufacturing
call under licence for delivery to the U.S. Air Force, so far no Arm application for such
Z
not been introduced,
word.
had
Bright Future
Last week, though, I joined the tourists on a trip down the Thames by river bus.. I was staggered at my ignorance of e river I see every day.
1 didn't know that when a
Falt the Press passes I brkige is under repair a bunch have her owned and of straw is suspended from it on licence has been received from these have been many and Middle Ages when die Thames any British concern. Presum ably this hesitancy is due to the varied the fanciest be- was London's main highway and workmen were not too esreful
done.
Flying Pyramid visit.
fast that a certain amount of yond any doubt is the one about what they dropped from design refinement has sill to be I was presented with by the bridges.
Foreign Office recently I didn't know that some of for President. Eisenhower's the watehouses are built on piles because the river bank at that spot is consecrated ground end The inscription on. it was nothing may be built on it; that AS I was writing those almost competely overwhelmed the plers of Blackfriars bridge are shaped like church pulpits in last few lines, word by pink-polka dots.
It entitled ino to use the deference to the old monastery that came through that British
a Uny house on selentiets have plans for a Carlton House Terrice head which stood on the ale;
quarters set up for newspaper Wren lived in
while he wIE space ship which could men covering the tour. In do the South bank
Cathedral; the number of buliding St Paul's carry two men 700 miles-ference to into space, keep them there American reporters on the job, that London Bridge, if not the nursery the bar inside the headquarter falling down,' as Boven hours and bring was well stocked with Dourbon rhyme has it, at least loans. off them back safely.
and rye whisky sind lood beer. the vertical.
The ship is called "The Flying Pyramid" because of the dokta allegɔs acid flat bottom which
In London, at-least, this sort What a wonderful city this is of service is amarel. But it to live If you only lake the
is to be a'procedent fan we of trouble to get to know it.
to be
YOU?
don't like my views. I 43 Does your child zo
Am not changing my altitude.
(e) You never find yourself
in this position.
Do ya serce that too much editratton can sometimes be dangerous?
(a) You.
(b) No,
Would you rather see your
child being
(a) With a strong sense of
wight and wrong?
(b) Independent minded? Do you agree that you will lose authority over a grow. ing child by admilling In his presence that you are at a loss or that you have made a mistake.
(a) Yes,
(b) No.
10 How would you deal with
#teenager who got Ideas Into his head you did not. approve of?
(a) Take a strong Bne with
INITEL
(b) Let hun work out his
own salvation.
(c) Discuss the matter with him, being careful not
to lay down the law Loo much,
First, check your scorc on
Phase 10 questions:
1. a 2, bl.
2. a=2, bi.
3. 27, 1, 1.
'4. a=2; b=).
5. al, b=2.
6. a, b 2, 1
7. a-3, -1.
B. 2, 1,
D. -2, -1.
10. a 2. b-1, c=1.
How many
pointa
have you scored? It you have totalled 15 OR OVER on these questions, you do the next 10 questions only.
Al Do you think a parent
dould deeds on the choice of
a carcer children?
(a) Yes, (b) No.
A2 Would you
for
Bay That most chlidren nced fairly constant supervi-
Elan they
going to
troublet c
(a) Yes, (b) No
10
the same type of school
that you did?'
(a) Yes,
(b) No,
A4 Do you sometimes dis-
REXCO with your
wife
(or husband) over how your children should be treated?
(a) Yes.
(b) No,
A5 How
A6
A7
A8
child?
obedient is your
(a) Very.
(b) Usually,
but not always, obedient.
(e) is troublesome.
At what age would you
allow a growing bey to
be treated as an equal
among adulle?
(a) Before 15.
(b) 18 to 18.
(e) Only after 18,
Have you had to punish
your child recently
|
at his age?
(a) Yes.
tb) Na..
(c) Ho's more advanced,
{d} You wouldn't like to
Sky
Do you approve
schools
B2 boarding
more than ance for the B
same offence within a week?.
(a) Yes,
(b) No.
Would you say that timex were changing and that one must ex- prot children to be somewhat different in
boys?
(a) Yes..
(b) No.
Would Ус Jrt
of
for
your oblid play with children whose
you parenta
bayen't met?
?
(a) Yes;
(b) No.
B4
their ontlook from their B5
parentst
(*) Yes. (b) No.
A9 What
child
would be your reaction to` your taking up a very usual hobby?
10.
(4) Let him get on with it it It amuses him? (b) This is waste of ilmne and should be dle- couraged?
A10 Who would you blame
for most of the Increase
of juvenile crime?
(a) The parents.
(b) The school.
(e) Bad companions.
(d) Films and television.
(e) The unsettled times
we live in.
Now,
for those whose score came to 14 OR UNDER on the opening questions, 10 questions of their own.
Bro
not
gel into
B1
FOUR D. JONES
GREAT CHINESE ŠIJAS | A, KDY, YOU SHIVELLING* SHEAR, STAND UP VIKEN YOU MEET AN HOLERABLE
CHOWYBOY OF CHINA
FERDINAND
BRICK BRADFORD
THE AREA ENCLOSED BY THAT BIG DITCH IS LEVELED AND PACKED
A LANDING STRIP!
Bay?
15
child Jour intelligent as you were
HOLD IT, STRANGER. PUT THAT SHOOTING IRON AWAY,
A SPY, MONAINT
GURS! YOU HAD
TO DIG THE DUNP PITECH 30 CAST REAVY
ANADOWS WHICH MARKED IT WHEN DO YOU EXPECT THE FIRST SPACESHIP?
How well do you know Your nearest nelzh- bours?
(a) Quite well.
(b) Hardly at all,
Do you hold a postilon of responsibility in Jetsure Ume organiza Won-uch as In toeat government, in a sports or theatrical club, ela. 7. (a) You {b} No.
B6 Do
B10 What do you feel about
your ability to bring up children?
(a) You are about aver-
age.
(b) You
seem to have more. dificulty than most.
(c) You don't seem to have any trouble.
THE DISCIPLINE TYPE . . .
First, the answers for, those who qualified for SECTION A. These people have strong view about things in general--and in particular about the need, for discipline in bringing up children.
A 4. a=3, 2, c-l.
A 7, dat, b=3.
A 8. dm), V=3,
.A 9. ¤=1, b=3,
A10. am3, b2, e=t, dæi,
c=1.
If your score is 24 OR OVER But this attitude may produce your children should not dis- two results: a great respect for appoint you.
the parent, and a desire by the If you have scored 15 OR child to model himself on the UNDER they may grow up in a parent: or A sharp reaction way you don't expect....and mway from all parental in- may not like. fluences. Your answers 'to the Seelion A questions will give the clue to which A 1, a=3, b=1.
A 2. 3, 1.
A 3. 3. b-1.
your
you allow children to read what they like in their spare time?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(e) Nearly always.
B7
7 Does your child have
tho same Intereais you did as a boy (or
1)*
(a), Yes.
B8 Who
(b) No.
TEM
B
A 4, α=minus 3, D=3. A 5. a=3, b2, c=1.
If you have scon BETWEEN 10 AND 23 your children will in many ways resemble you, but they will develop their own personalitica which will be affected by many factors apart from the influences originating from you.
AND THE TOLERANT
Now for people in SECTION There are tolerant people, who do not consciously' try 'to
model their children on them- melves.
D 9, 0--2, bai, tad,
B10, -2, -1, 3
If your score i7 24 OR OVER
If you scored UNDER 15 thng.
Their main concern is your children should resemble would
you say that their children should grow you In many ways,
Inlo reasonable, should have the greatest up
drcent infuerço in giving citizens. But this attitude, too, are likely to develop person-
dis- can produce diverse results,
child a elpline?
sense of
(a) The parent. (b) The school,
Would you like
B9
Uke you
First, check pour score, B1, a-3, 6-1, c-1, d=2.
B Z. a=1, 'b-3.
14, α=1, 3.
Brow
your Up
B 3, am, b3.
B5, a=3b=1.
B 6, α=1, b=3, Col.
137 am), bl.
(a) Yes, very much (b) No, thank you,
(c). You're not worried,
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COMING WITH ME INTO YOWN TO SEE
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I'VE GOT PAY HOOP WITH MEAT
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alities yours.
quite different
from
BETWEEN 15 AND 23 means that your children should grow up with well-developed per- sonalities of their own, but
be nevertheless
strongly Influenced by parental upbring- Ing.
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