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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 2, 1945
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MY CITATIONS. I have recently received two of the highest accolades that can come to any parent. Since their earliest childhood, I have tried to teach my children to make their own decisions. I consider this the most important single lesson any child can learn. I have told them that my place is to consel and help; to lead them along the intricate pathes of constructive thinking -- but that they, and only they, should make the final decisions. I felt it necessary that they should be thus thoroughly trained ,because I had known the lck of such training in my own childhood. Then, one week-end, my son came home from college and said, "Dad, I've got a problem that needs settling." So, according to our custom, he told me all the particulars of the situation. Together we tried our best to evaluate them, to make sure we had all the data available and to give each individual point its proper study and value. Finally I stated it looked as though a certain course of action should be followed. However, I again remembered him that HE must make the decision; HE was the one to be most affected; it was HIS life, not mine, that would gain or suffer. He thought silently for some time and then said, I'm going to play it your way, Dad. You've never steered me wrong yet!" I submit that no parent can possibly attain to a higher honor than such trust! However it was not easily gained. There were years of effort and background to that statement. There had been the other innumerable times we had talked matters over, concerning the various problems of his young life. There had been conscientious and considered training. The area, naturally was true of my two daughters. Always I have tried to be interested in their lives; to study what they were studying, so that I could talk intelligently with them. Always I tried to give them my heart. (I use the word "heart" in a different connotation, here, than the word "love" would imply. The latter, of course, they always had courage. "Heart" means my intense interest in them and their doings; a real desire to be of help to them; an earnest wish to be their friend, as well as just loving them, and providing for their material needs. My second citation came in the from of a letter from my younger daughter (you of Fandom know her as Th' Youn' Foo.) She wrote me on the morning of her eighteenth birthday, as follows: 3
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MY CITATIONS. I have recently received two of the highest accolades that can come to any parent. Since their earliest childhood, I have tried to teach my children to make their own decisions. I consider this the most important single lesson any child can learn. I have told them that my place is to consel and help; to lead them along the intricate pathes of constructive thinking -- but that they, and only they, should make the final decisions. I felt it necessary that they should be thus thoroughly trained ,because I had known the lck of such training in my own childhood. Then, one week-end, my son came home from college and said, "Dad, I've got a problem that needs settling." So, according to our custom, he told me all the particulars of the situation. Together we tried our best to evaluate them, to make sure we had all the data available and to give each individual point its proper study and value. Finally I stated it looked as though a certain course of action should be followed. However, I again remembered him that HE must make the decision; HE was the one to be most affected; it was HIS life, not mine, that would gain or suffer. He thought silently for some time and then said, I'm going to play it your way, Dad. You've never steered me wrong yet!" I submit that no parent can possibly attain to a higher honor than such trust! However it was not easily gained. There were years of effort and background to that statement. There had been the other innumerable times we had talked matters over, concerning the various problems of his young life. There had been conscientious and considered training. The area, naturally was true of my two daughters. Always I have tried to be interested in their lives; to study what they were studying, so that I could talk intelligently with them. Always I tried to give them my heart. (I use the word "heart" in a different connotation, here, than the word "love" would imply. The latter, of course, they always had courage. "Heart" means my intense interest in them and their doings; a real desire to be of help to them; an earnest wish to be their friend, as well as just loving them, and providing for their material needs. My second citation came in the from of a letter from my younger daughter (you of Fandom know her as Th' Youn' Foo.) She wrote me on the morning of her eighteenth birthday, as follows: 3
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