The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1984 Page: 92 of 119
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chores. Whereas 50 years ago any
woman who worked was expected to
come home and do all the housework
and take care of the children, today
more and more men are helping out in
the home. Men are beginning to learn
that if the family is going to have the
economic advantages of a working wife,
it’s only fair to have a domestic division
of labor.
Kids today are growing up in a time
when so many things are happening
that they accept change as the norm. My
generation, and those before us, grew
up more or less thinking that what you
learned, you learned, and that was it.
Today, the young people are growing up
realizing that there’s no end to learning,
that you don’t learn something and then
go out and work at it, but that you con-
tinue to expand and change. Perhaps
you’ll have two, three or four jobs in
your lifetime. Maybe you will go back
to school, or you will take special educa-
tion, or you will sign up for voluntary
work that expands your horizons.
Change is all today’s children have
known in their lives, and 1 think that’s
healthy. 1 think that’s good.
In the Middle Ages, it was given that
a shoemaker’s son was a Shoemaker.
When the first settlers came to America,
they wanted freedom for the shoe-
maker’s son to grow up and be a lawyer.
And today that nas expanded to include
his daughter as well. We expect the
shoemaker’s kids to be lawyers and doc-
tors and then perhaps politicians, all in
one lifetime. 1 also think that because
of better health habits and better nutri-
tion, kids today have the physical equip-
ment and energy they need to cope with
constant flux.
Still, they need their parents as much
as ever. More than anything else, l
believe, a child' must feel needed. A
child wants to belong. And the family
— presided over by a Mom and Pop
who are not “pals’’ but parents — is still
the best answer to that need. Parent-
hood is an essential component in the
success of what remains the basic unit
of society: the family. 1 say to my lecture
audiences across America: “Chances
are, you will never be president, or win
the Pulitzer Prize, or make a million
dollars. But there is a high-priority goal
you can reach — to be an effective
Mother or Dad." Achieving that goal
takes loving, sharing responsibilities,
caring, and stroking, under an umbrella
of patient, understanding discipline.
There is a myth that pressure by the
peer group is the most important thing
to an adolescent. I don’t believe this is
true. Despite the strong influence of
peers, the family circle can be the most
important point of reference for a grow-
ing child. No other activity should get
in the way of a meaningful family life.
From this, children learn to love others
and become happy adults who have the
most precious of possessions, self-
esteem. A successful home is a school
for love. FW
(continued from page 4)
you make it work for you instead of
against you.
I think the family that shares things
good and bad — economic problems,
traditions, decision making — stays
together. The Linkletters, for instance,
have a family partnership in which
every grandchild and every child is a
partner in a piece of my estate, and they
meet and talk about what to do and get
reports just like a corporation. They get
dividends, and there is a fund against
which they can borrow if they’re hav-
ing difficulties, but they must borrow
and return it.
1 also see my own children respond-
ing to social change in a creative way,
and preserving the family in the process.
1 have three children — Sharon, 34;
Dawn, 42; Jack, 45 — all of whom are
married and have children. Both of my
daughters share the responsibilities of
the home with their husbands. My
grandchildren are marrying, and they
are discussing exactly how they’re go-
ing to divide up the responsibilities of
the house. They don’t have children yet,
but they are already talking about what
will happen if they do.
Of course, I prefer the traditional
structure. I grew up with pretty strong
feelings, and you can’t just sweep them
under the rug. I believe in the mother
not working, but staying home and be-
ing with the children. And my children,
grandchildren, and 1 talk about it. We
discuss the alternatives. 1 tell them what
I think. And they say, "We hear you,
Dad (or Grandpa), we hear what you’re
saying, and we respect what you’re say-
ing, but we don’t want to do it.” I say,
“As long as you listen, as long as you’ve
considered it. You have to live your own
life." 1 have no objection to my children
and grandchildren living their own lives,
because they’re living in a different time
and making up their own minds.
Looking outside my own family, 1 also
see encouraging trends. The history of
the family down through the ages is one
of the great reasons for optimism. Over
the centuries there have been so many
chan
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 9, 1984, newspaper, December 9, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153277/m1/92/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.