A WARNING TO PARENTS - part 1

Articles In This Section:

· You Are What You Think You Are! - part 1

· You Are What You Think You Are! - part 2

· You Are What You Think You Are! - part 3

· WHY ARE YOU AS YOU ARE? - part 1

· WHY ARE YOU AS YOU ARE? - part 2

· YOUR IMPORTANT CHANGE-OVER

· A WARNING TO PARENTS - part 1

· A WARNING TO PARENTS - part 2

· A WARNING TO PARENTS - part 3

Those of you with young children, please, please be careful of everything you say to them. Whether you know it or not, you are molding the lives of the young ones and their futures will reflect what you do for them while they are small children.

“You’ll spend your life in prison, or end up in the gas chamber” a mother was heard to say to her son who had done some wrong. Would it be a wonder if such a boy became a delinquent? He was given a reputation to live up to, and the chances are strong that he will do so.

When children are very young, they accept every word of their fathers and mothers as fact. If a parent says to a child: “You’re bad!” the child believes it, and, of course, he proves this statement to be true.

Never refer to a child as being anything except that which you wish him to be. To call him bad, stupid, lazy, timid—or any one of the conditions you wish to avoid—is actually planting seeds in his Creative Mind which will grow and mature.

“I can’t call my child good when he has been bad,” indignantly exclaimed an irate mother. No, this is not necessary, but there are ways of correcting the child without calling him bad.

“Good boys do not do that,” the parent might say. This compares the young one with the good instead of the bad.

“With that fine mind of yours, you can easily develop into a respected leader and not have to work hard all your life,” an intelligent mother counseled her son who was inclined to shirk his studies.

When a women has worked hard all day, it is exasperating to have the children misbehave, and it requires self-control to keep from “blowing her top.” But bear in mind, the effort required to keep them on the right track is nothing to the heartaches which can come, should the children become delinquent.

Having children is God’s greatest blessing, and it is also our greatest responsibility. When a child comes into being, it is like a piece of clay placed in our hands to mold as we wish. What that child will be in twenty years depends entirely on what we put into it while it is a child.

Some parents will blame the neighborhood for the bad habits their children acquire. Often, the fault lies elsewhere.