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Mother And Father: "Charles, who is overweight, has probably inherited this tendency from his father."
"Harry is not very bright. He is also bad tempered and easily discouraged if things do not go as he wishes. His mother and father says he takes after his father."
"Patricia is very bright because her father is a judge and her grandfather was a governor. Unfortunately, tuberculosis runs in her mother and father's family, so Patricia is doomed to have a short life."
When the father came the mother and father told him about Hilda's not wanting the pea soup and he answered sternly, "Let her have it for dinner; she will learn."
At dinner time the mother and father got the pea soup out of the refrigerator to give to Hilda, but then she changed her mind. She gave the child, instead, fresh vegetables and other things, and heated the pea soup for herself. The father was angry and said, "You always let her have her way, you spoil her." The mother and father answered, "She had nothing for lunch. I will let her enjoy her dinner now. She needs it." He was silent and went on eating. The child sat down and ate very well without any urging from her parents.
The next day at lunch the mother and father told Hilda that there was only pea soup. She looked at her mother and father and said, "O.K., Mummy, I'll have some pea soup." She ate all of it while she babbled happily about school.
Carol did not say anything else. She rang her doorbell, took the five-year-old's hand and, when her mother and father pushed the buzzer, went inside. The other little girl rode away on her bicycle.
Read the following incident, trying to understand what the child's behavior meant to him:
Father and nine-year-old David were out in the backyard; father was working on the rosebushes.
David, close by, picked up some of his father's tools. |
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