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Bringing Up the Boys (Continued from page 33) because. ..." Yet there are times when even "No, because" will not serve. One must appeal to a child in such a way, I think, as to give the child a chance to reconsider, to change his mind and so avoid all disappointment. We told David, "There is just one problem: where will you keep your horse?" "In the garage," he said promptly. Ozzie nodded. "And where would we put the manger and the watering trough, the feed bin and his harness? You know that a horse must be groomed. Who would curry and brush him every day? Who would put clean straw in his stall at night and pitch it out the next morning? Who would haul away the dirty straw, and where would you store his hay?" David started to figure. The boys have been taught that they must be responsible for their own pets. Up until that moment, David had regarded a horse in an automotive light . . . free of some of the more exasperating habits of horses. Faced with facts, he quickly retracted. A few nights later he said that he had decided no one who didn't have a farm should own a horse . . . wouldn't be fair to the animal. We agreed. He was very happy with the bicycle he found under the Christmas tree. He could shoe it himself. EACH of the boys earns his own pocket money. David is paid $1.00 per week to dust the car every morning, and on Saturday he can earn an extra fifty cents for washing the car. We have tried our best to impress upon them that money is not something provided by a gracious Nature, like sunlight, but something for which human beings must exchange their time, their energies, and their skill. Ricky earns his dollar per week by turning down the beds to air each morning, opening the blinds, and hanging up everything in his room and in David's. He does not feel the slightest resentment about cleaning up David's room as well as his own, because we have explained that the person for whom the work is done is not the important factor; what counts is that one has a duty and does it well. With their incomes the boys buy their own school pencils, their tablets, their comic books, and pay their way to the Saturday movie. I know that there is a recurrent parental doubt about the wisdom of allowing children to read comic books. Ours read them and apparently enjoy them. In the first place, I think children are objective about such things. They feel only the excitement of action; they are not emotionally developed to the point where they realize that if forty Indians are dispatched by the U.S. Cavalry, forty squaws are left widows and at least forty papooses are left without a father. Frankly, the things I read as a child were just as bloodthirsty. There was a lovely story about a girl who pretended to die by taking a sleeping potion. 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