Article December 1, 1956 Issue

TRUE GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS

KATHRYN H. BRESLAUER

A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST fulfills his duty as a parent with wisdom, courage, and clarity of thought. He can do this because he understands that God is the only creator and that His creation is wholly spiritual.

Mary Baker Eddy gives us in her writings invaluable guidance regarding the care and education of children. She shows us how to see each individual as truly a child of God. In "Miscellaneous Writings" she says (p. 185), "The spiritualization of our sense of men opens the gates of paradise that the so-called material senses would close, and reveals man infinitely blessed, upright, pure, and free; having no need of statistics by which to learn his origin and age, or to measure his manhood, or to know how much of a man he ever has been: for, 'as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God."

The understanding of this statement was a great help to a mother whose child, although apparently well able to do superior schoolwork, was falling behind in his studies, and was misbehaving as well. The school was considering assigning the boy to an adjustment class.

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