THE GHINA MATE
EMBER
19376
Why Your Child Pulls The Dog's Tail!
Why are children cruel? It alwar seems so unnatural to discover. sweet child showing no feeling all for the bruises it inflicts: up- other children or the painful jury to pet animals.
It horrifies a parent to see sur heartless behaviour, and she fea that her child must be a warped br ing possibly an incipient criminal
In the main, most small childrer have no imaginative awareness o the feelings of others. They trea other children as though they wer blocks of wood. They grab the ca and dog by any convenient handle. often the ears or tail or legs and disregard their outraged noises.
SIMPLE PUNISHMENT
They have to be taught to recog- nise suffering. Our best method is
CLEVER IDEAS
PAINT STAINS: For paint stains on white fabrics, cover the stain with lard and leave for a day or two; then wash with white soap.
STALE SMOKE: Burn - 2 -few drops of vinegar on a hot shovel for a quick way of clearing the smell of stale smoke out of a room.
COOKING TIP: A little font sprinkled over the fruit before adding the top layer of pastries to pies. tarts, etc., will not only thick- en the syrup, but prevent the juice from boiling over and soaking into the crust.
CLEANING POTS: If soap is rubbed on your scouring cloth be- fore the cleanser is put on, the soot on the bottom of a pan will be in- stantly removed, and the cloth will be free from the black soot on rinsing.
·OILSKIN COAT: To renovate an oilskin coat, obtain 1 pint double- boiled linseed oil, 1⁄2oz patent paint driers, and 1oz black, ground in oil. All obtainable from paint stores. Thoroughly mix and strain through coarse cloth, then brush all over as evenly as possible. Al- low to dry one, week before wear- ing
USE FOR COFFEE GROUNDS. A good housekeeper will always empty the coffee grounds down the kitchen sink, as this keeps it free from clogging with grease, and the water will always run away freely.
-imply to ostracise them from the ing threatening lunges at their fear useless domination, just to prove
mpany of children they mistreat filled victims.
3 send them to their rooms
to
she is boss, arouses in the child the very natural desire to be dominant over someone, and his victims are animals and smaller children.
It is a splendid policy to anticipate problems.
ent their unsocial behaviour. Their own pets fared no better en they hurt animals, they should They enjoyed climbing the roof of deprived of their companionship. the garage in order to cast their dog from its highest point and hear her But what of the causes? Other
squeal. Their mother discovered the What would you do as a mother n a lack of imagination what can cat's tail tied flat against its back-if your child suddenly bit some spire a child to constant exhibi-with the tip waving over the agitat-helpless, small neighbour child? ns of wanton cruelty?
One mother put her own
finger
Everyone imagines what she would do but does she do it?
ed animal's head.
What would you do if your hither- In an explanation of their behavi- to loving son addressed you by some our the mother admitted herself blasphemous term? baffled "They mind me well en ght on the source of the mischief.ough, she related. "They know who is boss around here, and they he recounted at length the behavi-
toe the mark If they don't I use r of her six and seven-year-old the hairbrush on them, good. It is oys. They were the terrors of the only when my back is turned that sighbourhood, hated and feared by they think up all the mean and cruel arents and children alike.
mischief."
Nothing could be wiser than to determine in advance how you in- tend to deal with this kind of mis- behaviour. Then you will not be taken unawares and act solely upon the dictates of your very justifiable anger
Their appearance was the signal IT'S THE PARENTS FAULT or terrified screams from smaller! A domineering parent could easily If mothers did this there would hildren, who hastened to fly to the inspire such attitudes in children. A be fewer who would say “I wish rotection of older ones. They child should abey without being bulli- I hadn't done that; I can see now waggered about, fourishing stones, ed. But for the parent to make that it was just the wrong thing ticks and other weapons, and mak- the child's opposition the signal for to do”
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