Salma to grow up sound in their thinking, eager to

mingle with their comrades and to appear freely in their surroundings, so long as their souls stagger under their burden, feeling their own weakness, or the superiority of others over them?

Not all children are alike. There is the child who surpasses his brothers in height and beauty of figure; and that one surpasses them in intelligence and in endearing himself to people; and that girl rivals the movie stars in softness and beauty of voice; and that one excels not his brothers alone but all the pupils of the school. I do not blame parents for taking pride in their children's excellence and in their possession of enviable talents — who among us would dare deny the joy that floods his heart at his son's excellence in intelligence and beauty?! But it is not wise for the mother or the father to run on, on every occasion and without occasion, and go to excess in dis-playing her child's talents through her microscopic eye, especially in the presence of her other children, because by that she exposes them to two dangers. The first is the danger of the feeling of grandeur, or superiority, into which her gifted child will inevitably fall; and once he becomes prey to this feel-ing, no one any longer values his talent, because his objectionable conceit will have laid hold of this beloved talent and disfigured its natural beauty. The second danger, no less important than the first, is the inferiority complex, or the feel-ing of worthlessness, into which her ungifted children will fall as a result of hearing the phrases of lavish praise scattered without measure upon their brother, so that their capacities for showing their ability — weak enough to begin with — grow weaker, and this ability shrinks under a bitter repression until recovery from this deficiency becomes a difficult

matter. If we wish to boast of our children's talents, then, let us beware of two things: first, that we do not overstep truth and reality and exaggerate in describing our children's merits, exposing ourselves to society's criticism and displeasure; and second, that we do not disparage any of our children in his presence,

or in the presence of his brothers or of other children. By this we shall have guarded the beauty of their talents from disfigurement, preserved their appearing always in a natural, beautiful aspect, and removed from the atmosphere of the home every danger of a psychological ailment that might be the greatest threat to the children's affection and mutual understanding and to the safe-keeping of the family's happiness.

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