FATHER COMES
HOME
Copyrighted, 1945, by, and
prepared by the staff of the
Child Study Ass’n of America
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The first days at home may pre
sent some special problems. They
usually do. When a soldier thinks
about home, he pictures it as a
haven of rest and peace. He may
have forgotten what normal fam
ily life really is.
* For instance, Johnny is older
now, and slams the door with a
loud bang as he rushes in for his
baseball bat. (Johnny isn’t aware
that Dad, like many other men
just home from the battlefields,
may not like sudden loud noises).
Dad may also not relish the gang
playing in the back yard, with all
the “ack-ack-ack-ack” and dive
bomber sounds.
Or it may upset Dad when he
hears the baby crying, sepecially
at night. (The baby may be more
difficult for a while too, because
of all the extra excitement in the
house).
But most of all, he may be dis
appointed that the children and
the household take up so much of
your time, and you don’t seem to
have much left for him. It takes
a lot of juggling to smooth it all
out.
Perhaps you can get your
mother or a neighbor to help out
with the children for a while so
you can go off with your husband
by yourselves occasionally.
Gradually the children will get
to understand what Dad doesn’t
like, and why. Perhaps they can
learn to save some of their high
spirits for out-of-doors.
Dad, too, will get • used to a
home and family, after a while,
and to the way the children play.
Some of this, he’s just forgotten.
Some of it is new to him, because
the children are older and differ
ent now.
You’ll sometimes feel like a dip
lomat or a circus-master, with
three rings going on at once. Fam
ily life is always more or less like
this, war or peace. There’s never
a dull moment. It will help if you
and your husband remind your
selves of this every once in a
while. Then you can relax and en
joy the pleasant times that go
with the annoying ones.
What about your feelings in all
this? Can the experience of other
wives help you here?
There are two things to look out
for. You may be the kind of wo
man who’s found it so satisfactory
to be the ‘‘man of the house” that
you keep it up when your hus
band comes bock. You may find
it hard to give up your authority.
On the other hand, you may be
so glad to be relieved of all these
responsibilities that you give up
completely and expect your hus
More Bright—And Stupid
—Boys Than Girls
There are more boys at both
extremes of intelligence—brighter
and duller—than there are girls,
although the average intelligence
is the same. The British psycholo
gist J. A. F. Roberts states that in
the one thousand “cleverest” or
“dullest” children out of ten thou
sand there are 534 boys to 466
girls, or a ratio of 115 boys to 100
girls. In the final 0.1 percent at
the highest and lowest intelligence
levels there are nearly twice as
many boys as girls. That boys are
so much more variable than girls |
in general intelligence is one of j
the most curious facts in human '
biology.—Journal of the American
Medical Association.
band to take over all the big and
little things right away. You may
want him to discipline the chil
dren, handle your mother-in-law,
and settle disputes with the
tradespeople before he has had a
chance to turn around.
There’s a safe course some
where between the two.
C O U S I N—Miss Jean Mar
tineau, who is a V.A.D. at St.
Thomas hospital, London, is the
only daughter of Mrs. Cyril
Martineau, who was a first cou
sin to President Roosevelt.
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