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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, January 19, 1973
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IN NEW BERN TODAY
One of the nation’s more
successful youth counselors has
his own approach to
establishing self-discipline
among High school students,
especially when it comes to a
student’s homework.
"I would make doing it as
pleasureable a chore as
possible,” he says. “For
example, many parents say,
“Go to your room and do your
homework.” I think that’s an
extremely adult capability to go
off by yourself and do
something you don’t par-
ticuiarly want to do, and do it
well.”
What’s his suggestion?” With
the youngsters who don’t like to
do it, I would have them do it
ciose to the famUy, on the
diningroom table. They’re not
isolated when they do this.”
The counselor admits there
are distractions when this
method of study is used, but he
classifies them as usually
positive distractions. "For
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example, let’s say the student is
learning some French verbs
and he says he can’t get them.
You say, “work on them ten
minutes, and then I’il listen.”
This is a positive way to do work
together.”
A parent has the wrong at
titude when he or she makes
homework sound like punish
ment. “Youngsters are going to
move less and less toward
these chores, if the attitude
toward them is punitive.” Don’t
make it sound like a dose of
medicine. Mom and Dad.
And says the counselor, “You
have to be careful not to impose
your experience. Most adults
say, “When I was young...” and
for a eery good reason, because
this is one of the very few
sources they have for a stan
dard. Whenever you hear
yourself saying it or thinking it,
let the red lights flash, and say
to yourself, “There’s a better
standard than that for my
youngsters.” They’re going to
be engaged in professions that
we know nothing of today.”
Not that parents should be
afriad to speak their minds. “I
say; Hold your standards. Let
your standards be known, but
not in a bombastic fashion. Let
the teenager spiral round this
but be very weU acquainted
with the standard of the
parents.
“The best parent is a person
who’s secure enough in his own
values that he doesn’t have to be
oppressive, bombastic, fear
ful.” Maybe it’s worth hying.
NURSE-MIDWIFE Genevieve Feyen gives childbirth education
classes at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
The Nurse-midwife program, which the March of Dimes helps
support, contributes to family health by emphasizing the im
portance of early and regular prenatal care.
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Yesterday was when you
could walk any street in town,
any time of night, and not be
afraid something l»d was going
to happen to you. The only place
you whistled nervously was
passing Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Yesterday was when you
knew that in grammar school
all you could count on was being
in an operetta, and maybe just
as a flower or something
equally awful. When you got in
Hi^ school, there were class
plays. What ever did happen to
them?
Yesterday was when, in
boyhood, a lot of fathers who
have long-haired sons today had
close cropped craniums, and
wore skull caps in a vain effort
to make the shortened locks
stay flat.
Yesterday was when the fair
sex turned downright scan
dalous, and publicly wore
dresses that were actually
above their knees. Un
fortunately^ the human knee is
no prettier than the human
elbow, or the navels displayed
today.
Yesterday was when young
females of the Ticker Tape
Twenties were called flappers.
Everybody knows that, but how
many of you remember that
youthful males who did their
thing in the same generation
were called cake eaters?
Yesterday was when, before
this editor came along, making
love was called sparking. Later
it was referred to as spooning,
and by the time we had our firet
date it was being referred to as
pitching woo.
Even if teenagers had heard
about dope, they wouldn’t have
had money to invest in it. But
believe us, son, life didn’t short
change us.
Top Ten Tunes
In New Bern
This Week
1. You’re So Vain—Carly
Simon.
2. Superstition—Stevie
Wonder.
3. Me & Mrs. Jones—Billy
Paul.
4. Clair—Gilbert O’Sullivan.
5. Rockin’ Pneumonia-
Johnny Rivers.
6. Super Fly—Curtis
Mayfield.
7. Your Mama Don’t Dance—
Loggins & Messina.
8. Why Can’t We Live
Together—Timmy ’Thomas.
9. Crocodile Rock—Elton
John.
10. Keeper of the Castle—4
Tops.
(This week’s Mirror pick for a
future spot in the Top Ten is
James Taylor’s Don’t Let Me
Be Lonely.)
CRAVEN COUNTY’S
COUNTRY AND WESTERN
FAVORITES
1. She’s Got to Be A Saint-
Ray Price.
2. Soul Song—Joe Stampley.
3. A Picture of Me WiUiout
You—George Jones.
4. Lovin’ On Back Streets—
Mel Street.
5. Old Dogs, Children, and
Watermelon Wine—Tom T.
Hall.
6. Fool Me—Lynn Anderson.
7. Love’s The /uiswer—Tanya
Tucker.
8. Catfish John—Johnny
Russell.
9. Pass Me By—Johnny
Rodriguez.
10. She Needs Someone To
Hold Her—Conway Twitty.
(This week’s Mirror pick for a
future spot in the Top Ten is
Merle Haggard’s I Wonder If
Thqr Ever Think Of Me.)
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