Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1950)

They are getting good, old-fashioned family life which means learning to be fair about giving and taking your share, and doing your part. If you teach a child to tell the truth and to have respect for everybody's religion as well as his own, and give them plenty of love, they come out all right. Morton likes to make out that I was a terror when it came to spankings and giving him the back of my hand, and the boys like to say I boil over like a tea-kettle at them when they don't mind their manners, but there never have been any spankings in this house because we haven't needed them. There are punishments, like taking away pocket money on occasion, but not much of that because the children are good. If they get off the track, a serious talk puts them back on better than a punishment. Morton says I am easier on them than I was on him, and I say I am a little stricter. I have to be. Just because Morton can do so much for them, I don't want them to take it for granted. We have to watch out for that, because no one can stop him giving them presents. He gives presents to everyone. He always has. When he first started earning, long before he was twenty, he refurnished the living and dining rooms as a present to me, and every time I turn around now it's something new, big or little, to give us comfort and pleasure. We try to tell the children that their father worked hard for everything he has, but they take it for granted just the way mine took it for granted that their father was fire chief. We have held them down on pocket-money though, and made them work for it. Kevin emptied waste-baskets when he was three for two cents a week, and Tony helped making beds for a nickel. When they were big enough, Mike worked in a silver factory for his pocket money in the summer, and Sean was a guard at the pool, just the way my boys worked during vacations. Morton lives in an apartment in New York. The children love to run in and out of it but all of them, including Morton, think of Wallingford as home. Wallingford is a small town, two hours' drive from New York. My husband was born here and our roots go far back. For instance, Sean's best friend is the son of Morton's childhood pal. I was born in Brooklyn, but my family moved here when I was small so it is my home town, too. When I was first married we lived in a flat. After Morton was born, we bought our own home, an eight-room cottage. About fifteen years ago we moved into the fourteen-room house where we still live. No matter how big the house, the dinner table has always been crowded and so has the yard, but we're used to it. I was raised in a big family. I had four brothers, and my mother always made all of our friends welcome. I learned from her how to stretch any meal to accommodate just one more, even if there were already three extra sitting down. It was the same when my own were growing up. Each always had his special friend to bring, and welcome. It's the same now, especially since Morton put in the swimming pool four years ago. The yard is packed with children all summer long, screaming and romping and having fun. It's a racket, but happy noise doesn't bother us. It means we know where the children are, and it's better to have them where you can watch them and the friends they are making than wondering where they are. Folks are forever saying to me, "What a big job for you to take on after your own children were all grown up and settled and you had earned a rest. I don't envy you." Well, it is a big job — but it's also the greatest pleasure in life to see good children fulfilling their promise. It also makes you feel young and happy, no matter what your age, because there's nothing like children to put life into your days and make you feel that they are worth living! 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