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14 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, Jonuery 26, 1967 Dear Ann Landers: Our prob- lem is not unique. Others must have solved it. We'd like to know how. If my wife and I should die in an accident together, what would become of our children? We have only one blood rela- tive. She would consider it her duty to raise our children but my wife and I don't feel she is capable of rearing them prop- erly. Also we would want our children to remain together if they should be orphaned. We have no close friends with families small enough so that they could raise our youngsters in addition to their own brood. Money has been set aside to see our children through college, but love and affection is what they would need and this is what worries us. Until this problem is resolved my wife and I refuse to fly in the same plane. We even hesi- tate to get into a car together. What do you suggest?--Here Today Dear Here: Make a deal with the couple you would like most to rear your children. Forget about the size of their family-- or yours. Agree to take their brood if they should die to- gether, and ask them to take yours if you should be involved in such a tragedy. Get it in writing. Be sure you have a lawyer prepare the wills and all the legal documents. And make sure the financial ar- rangements are all set. After you have taken these wise precautions, put the whole matter out of your mind. The chance of this kind of thing hap- pening is remote. ANN LANDERS Double Disaster Parents' Nightmare large high school. The kids at school talk a lot about sex and I can tell you that most of them do more than just talk. My best friend has been sleep- ing with her boyfriend but I am not writing to criticize her. What I need is some answers. We have had lots of arguments about right and wrong and I have been losing. My friend says she is in love and _that sex is the natural way to express complete devotion. She also says if she refused to go along, her boyfriend would drop her and find someone who is more co-operative. When I asked her what she would do if she got pregnant she laughed and said: "The pill never fails." | Please tell me how to win |these arguments.--Out-talked Dear Out: Why bother? Your) friend has already lost the most | important argument and now she is trying to justify herself. I have had letters from other teen-age girls who also jlaughed and said "'the pill never fails." They stopped laughing when the doctor said: "You are preg- nant." Assuming that pregnancy can be avoided, it's still foolish for high school kids to play house. Why? Because our society has decreed that sex belongs in marriage. Sex on the sneak can be ugly, frightening and dis- appointing. It can create guilt, resentment and a cockeyed no- tion of what life and love is all about. If it's love, it can wait. If it isn't, who needs it? Confidential to the Hold-Out: Wise or foolish? I say you are wise. It's a funny thing, but when people refuse to accept Dear Ann Landers: I am a 16-year-old girl and attend a anything but the best, they very often get it. CHILD GUIDANCE Parents' Night At School Plays Up The Best Pupils By GARRY C. MYERS, PhD A frequent practice, with a noble purpose, at the elemen- tary school level is known as Parents' Night. It is usually put on with the co-operation of the local PTA. Sometimes it is a part of a PTA meeting. On this night the teacher vol- unteers her time to be in her room. Naturally, parents whose children attend class there go to this room to meet the teacher and learn what children do there. On the walls are dis- played the best samples of chil- dren's work. The best creative work by children may appear in booklets, or as pictures or objects they have created. Naturally. parents of those children whose work is best, who seem to do well at school, are most likely to be there. They enjoy seeing evidence of their children's achievement and to know that other parents looking and listening learn about their exploits. Relatively fewer parents whose children lag at school or do mediocre work there are present, Of those who are, not so many ask questions of the teacher about the work of their children. What they heard, if they did, might not be very pleasant to hear or to: have other parents hear. STRONG MOTIVATION So the teachers and their principal have a strong motive to make a good showing in each room. Besides they celebrate successes. Having attended many a Parents' Night over the years I keep asking myself, what is the over-all effect on the parents and children in- volved? What may be done to inform and stimulate all the parents and children of the school, es- pecially the parents of the lower half or so of the school's chil- dren, especially of those with the lower cultural advantages at home? A basic problem common to all sorts of display of work by school children is involved. In practically every schoolroom one sees on any day some good work by youngsters displayed on the walls. A number of items often ap- pear by the same child. The effect on him must be stimulat- ing. But we must wonder about the effect on the other children of the room, especially on those often pretty large in number who can never hope to see samples of their work dis- played. Solving this problem is not easy. However, I'd like to offer a partial way of solving it: Instead of displaying always the best work, how about dis- playing a series of items by dif- ferent children, often selecting for display the work of the child who over a period of several weeks or months reveals the most noticeable improvement? To do this the teacher would have to file work samples by a child over an extended period. This simple procedure might make it possible for the child ranking low, even the lowest, in total achievement to have his work displayed. SUGGESTED PROJECT While serving in a teacher's college some years ago I pre- vailed on a few teachers to apply this principle for stimu- lating competition by children to improve in neatness and leg- ibility of written work. Accord- ingly the teacher had each child of her schoolroom, on a certain date, place a sample of his regular written work between the leaves of an old magazine; then at intervals of a month later to place another sample between the next two leaves, and so on. After several months She and the children together observed the evidence of im- provement in neatness and leg- ibility of the various children. Since that time I've been looking for classroom samples of display of children's written work over an extended period on the basis of progress. I'm still looking. Any person reading this col- umn today who has seen this principle applied in regular classroom displays, especially on Parents' Night, could do me a personal favor by writing me and telling me all about it. I might be able to relay such in- formation to other parents or teachers. ANSWERING QUESTIONS Q. Are family celebrations of anniversaries and birthdays of value in the family? A. Yes, indeed, when every member including a regular helping person is honored with such celebrations. Each mem- ber then feels a sense of worthi- ness. | If crochet is your forte, you'll enjoy making a pretty doily. This wheel of lace has an_ attractive DOUBLE - FLOUNCE double flounce and can be made from all white cro- cheted cotton or from a pretty delicate color to DOILY FOR EXPERTS TO brighten a room. 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