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May 25, 1910. THE
THE ONLY CHILD.
There are two sides to every question,
and the people who argue that it is better
to rear a small family, and do it well
tlian to have a family too large to be
properly supported and educated, are
probably just as honestly patriotic as the
holders of the other view. But apart
from national considerations, the effect
upon a child itself of belonging to a
small family also has two sides. The
family with an only child is remarkably
frequont nowadays, whereas, in old times
it used to be considered a calamity only
next to a childless home. And the old
opinion has much to back it. For the
parents who wish only for one or two
children, in order to do their best by
them, are in extreme danger of thereby
doing the very worst possible by them instead.
An only child, whether his mother
means it to be so or not, finds his whole
little world, as he grows up, conditioned
only for him. All the family hopes converge
on him. He is the important member.
Either he is spoiled?and how dreadful
only children can be, all the world
knows?or in the effort not to spoil him
he is made more or less of a prig. The
normal child is one of a group?yielding
some points daily in his normal intercourse
with brothers and sisters and
gaining others; seeing life as a place to
give and take, a place where he must
auapu nimsen to wnat otners ao ana are.
No older person, however anxious and
conscientious, can teach a child what other
children teach unconsciously. To be
one of the younger children of a goodsized
family is an education in itself,
and an inestimable advantage in life.?
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