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We don’t enjoy the children enough. We be-

tion that we lose all the joy. Very soon the chil-
- dren vanish and in their places appear strangers,
young people with whom we have to try to become
acquainted.
Infancy and childhood are
the times for knowing and en-
joying the children. Then we
can make friends with them.
We can let them learn to know
us and we can bid for their
love and understanding.
Mothers have more chance to
do this than fathers have. The
_ ehildren are asleep in the morn-
ing, or father is so hurried he
has no time to play with them
before leaving for work. They
are “ready for bed in the evening
and again there is little time for
ah father to enjoy his children. &
Anything that is worth hav-
ing is worth making an effort
to gain and the children’s affections are well
i worth striving for even in the face of time tables

eu and conferences and clocks. We need the chil-
dren and they need us, especially do they need
to know and understand their fathers. And
Sepnrty need to get close to their children.
Father is a giant among men to his children.
Al you have to do to prove that is to listen to a
group of children on their way to or from school.
“My father can run a car better than your father
can.” “Aw, gwan, he cannot. I betcha my father
3 ‘ean race faster than anybody. He can even beat
—.” “Pooh. You cught to see my father what
he can do. He can lift me in one hand just as
steady as anything, he can.” “So can my father
and he knows the best places for camping. Once
- we went to a lake in the mountains and, Gee, you
Bs ought to see him make a camp and build a fire
and cook an’ everything. He’s the ——.” “Aw,

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“come so absorbed in their training and educa-

-puts an entirely new aspect on that park. Every —

you think your father’s something great. Can he
fly an airplane? I betcha he can’t. But ar:
can.” a

Feeling a father behind you gives you courage a4
to do anything, even if it’s as hard as climbing
the electric pole, or learning the whole multiplica-
tion table of sevens in a day, or swallowing your —
medicine, or making a base with the catcher wait- if
ing to touch you out. With father strong for ~~ oe
there’s nothing to fear. ae

Having fun with father puts a sparkle into life. "
A man is so big and $0 strong, and a child is so —
little and weak that he thrills to the notion of —

such power being bent in his service. “Daddy’s —
going to take me. Daddy’s going to take me,” and ~
a child, wild with joy, dashes about to find his —
hat and coat so he can walk in the park with his st
father. He has done the rounds of the park daily. st
since he could walk with his nurse or his mother, —
but the fact that father is going to go with him —

bird, leaf or flower takes on a new beauty just for a
father. oS

Fathers give their children certain qualities a
that are more than valuable.” They are priceless.
A good name, a fine character, a background of —
love and understanding is only half built unless
father does his share. He can play, talk, listen, —
advise and guide his children so as to enrich
their lives, strengthen their mother’s influence and
flood his own _ spirit with joyous satisfaction. —
There’s a lot of fun to be. had in association with
one’s children. Don’t miss it. Let some of the
meaningless attitudes go by the board and put
the time and energy into becoming acgunlaee BK
with the children.

“You’re a great boy,’ said I to a little chap j
who had done a fine bit of work under trying
conditions,

“You don’t know my father,” said he, eyes —
shining. “I’d do anything to please. him, he’s so —
good and so smart. I just have to make good. You —
know something? He even talks to me. You >
know. Just as if I was a regular man like him.
Some father I’ve got, believe me.” And I did,

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tionally known child psychologist, who, through
his writings, has earned ‘the title, “The School-
master to Millions.” His daily articles dealing with
¥ all phases of the psychology of childhood and
: oe adolescence appear exclusively in The Vanccuver
~ Sun, and are proving to be most valuable to par-

ents, educators and all who have to do with the
__ development and training of youth.

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Daily articles by Angelo Patri, an interna-,

He knows children. You can follow him right ©
into the child mind; he is familiar with the prob- |
lems that confront both parents and offspring, —
and possesses an innate sense of the joys and ~
sorrows of childhood. In his daily article in The —
Vancouver Sun, he is meeting a definite need for
teachers of all grades in our public schools, and is
meeting a serious demand of the family fireside.
In your dealings with children and thoughts on
family life, you will find Angelo Patri’s- daily are ‘
Holes more helpful than a year in a university,