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Dr. Maynard’s new booklet, Y«ur Child Today, discusses twenty of the most common problems of parents. It’s free; mail a postcard to Donald M. Maynard, 810 Broadway, Nashville 2, Tennessee, and ask for a copy.
of learning to accept one’s financial position and to adjust to it accordingly. If the income of your family doesn't permit your son to keep up with his crowd, then he’ll just have to accept that fact and make the best of it. But something else needs to be said. Surely not all of those in your son’s crowd are financially affluent. There must be other boys who are as embarrassed as your son. He’ll know who they are. Suggest that they get together and idecide that on their dates they’ll not pamper the whims of the weaker sex. ■Let them plan dates ’ together. Adolescents with a little ingenuity and ere-’ ativeness can have good times together without spending a lot of money. And let’s not ke unfair to the girla. Many of them are sane and sensible and won’t expect the boys to provide entertainment they can’t afford, j It should be remembered, too, that a boy who has “something on the ball," that is, who has an attractive personality and is active in school affairs, can get by without buying corsages ahd alwhys providing expensive entertainment. Furthermore, there are beautiful flower, arrangements that can be had lor a rea’sonable sum. 1 Granting that your atm should learn {to get along on the family income, it also is true that he should have the satisfaction that comes from an occasional “splurge." V Even with your modest income, far example, you probably can agree to pay for <me or two corsages a year for special occasions. It can be understood that if he wants to give them more frequently than this, he must pay for them out of his allowance or get the money for them by working for it. By ■following some such plan, ne will not feel entirely left out of his crowd.
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