mind and his intellectual maturity allow. His understanding of these matters which the films touch upon differs altogether from ours — we grown-ups — in depth and in range. The child sees in them only what his mental and bodily maturity and his personal experience interpret for him. And his interpretations are, on the whole, innocent and simple.”
“Is it among a mother's duties to know whom her child keeps company with, and to cut off undesirable attachments?”
This delicate question came from Salwa.
To Hassana's tongue came the common proverb: “Everything forbidden is desired,” Salwa dear. “If you cut off the friendship binding your daughter to another girl who is undesirable for reasons of your own, you encourage your daughter to see her in secret, and perhaps to grow more attached to her than before. Better to drop her a remark from time to time, until she gives her up of her own accord, and...”
“That is true,” Salwa assented. “Better that I encourage her to keep company with better and finer friends, without pressing her to abandon the one I do not care for...”
Sabiha and Faiza nodded their heads in agreement, and Faiza went on:
“We must not forget that the home belongs to young and old alike. If our children feel that, we need have no fear for them from bad companions; for they will not keep company with them outside the house, and will bring home only those with whom they are in understanding and harmony. Our greatest guarantee — we parents' guarantee — in the choosing of good friends for our children is to plant and foster in their souls the essential qualities and virtues we desire; then their choosing of persons who
possess those qualities becomes a natural thing.”
Sabiha objected to that idea and set out her belief: “The child's inner state, at the age of adolescence — that is, for four or five years — settles on nothing definite. It may turn and shift several times, so that he is drawn to the very contrary of what is in him. The mother, this being so, must be watchful, must observe those changes, and must give him a great deal of her time and care.”
Hassana took the side
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