Blaming the Children

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1907

Blaming the Children

CHILDREN in the household multiply household cares; there is no doubt about that. But is the fact of their presence enough to account for any and every failure to have things just as they should be in the household administration? Or does the apologetic explanation “the children, you know,” offer a very tempting and convenient shield for some of our own shortcomings? To be sure, many a well-laid plan of a parent has been demolished by the duty of giving the children, for the time, first claim on one’s attention. But that does not mean that all attempt at planning for other duty-doing in the household should be abandoned. Because it is harder, with the demands of the children, to do what we should do, is only an added reason for doing it,—for the children’s sake as well as for our own.—S. S. Times.