FATHER COMES
HOME
Prepared by the staff of the
Child Study Ass’n of America
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“Daddy’s coming home!”
The children have waited long
for those words and you’ve waited
long to be able to say them. The
day you’ve both written and
dreamed about will come at last, !
For'you and your husband and for
the children, it will be something 1
thing you will never forget.
As the excitement wears off,
and you all begin to pick up the
threads of life together, some
rough spots will crop up. They do
for everybody. The experience of
other families who have gone
through this period of adjustment
can give you some hints that may
make your husband’s return as
smooth as possible for the whole
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family.
Even though he isn’t here yet,,
it will help if you can plan ahead 1
and prepare for that time now.
No matter how much you have
planned lust how you will meet
him, somehow it hardly ever
works out the way you expect.
Military orders are changed at the
last minute and he arrives earlier
or later than you expected. Things
go like that in wartime, and it
really doesn't matter much.
Your ideal wish is to be at the
station in your best clothes, with j
Junior and the baby neat and i
clean on either side of you. But if
your husband takes an earlier
train he may burst in to find the
baby in her high chair covered
with cereal, and you with your
hair still in bobby-pins. Or you
may be kept waiting at the sta
tion for hours until all of you are
tired and cross. Then Junior may|
insist on going to the toilet just as
the train pulls in. As in this case:,
Mrs. B. took three children,
ranging from six to one year old
to the staiion to meet their father.
The train was nine hours late. The
children were irritable and hun
gry, the baby wet constantly; ev
eryone was exhausted and cross
when Dad finally came. So the
joy was gone out of the big event.
To avoid this sort of thing,
some mothers have worked out
ways of having the soldier father
return to his family on a sort of
installment plan. For example,
one mother wrote that at her hus
band’s suggestion, she arranged
for someone to stay with her!
young children and she went to I
meet her husband and be alone
with him for a few days. The idea
was to start in all over again—“to
get reaccustomed first to being
married and then to being par
enst.” “I’ll be back in a day or
two, she told her children, and
when I come, I’ll bring your own
Soldier Daddy as a great big pres
ent.” The train was many hours'
late that time too. But she just
went to the movies, fixed her
face up fresh so that when he ac
tually came, she felt more relax
ed. They stayed the night at a
hotel and next morning telephon
ed the children. “Mother’s com- <
ing home today," they shouted,
‘‘and she’s bringing Daddy!"
Most men prefer to come home
to the whole family right away,
however. It is the mother more
often who is anxoius to get away
for a few days from the drudgery
of housework and care of the
children. But home is just what a
man in the service had been long
ing for all the time he was away
—home, with all its humdrum,
everyday business. And that's
where he wanted to get back to
as quickly as possible.
You probably will be able to
sense what kind of homecoming
your husband would prefer.
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