Transcripts For CSPAN3 Reel America Roots Of Happiness - 195

CSPAN3 Reel America Roots Of Happiness - 1953 July 11, 2024

Of man he will be. Also the story of children and how they feel and what the feelings of a child may do to the man or woman that the child will grow into. Learns to be a man by playing, by imitating in his play the things men do, the way grownups act. Men, becauseto be it makes them feel good inside. It makes them feel more like the grownups they admire most. Say, seeoff as if to what i man i am going to be. And this is good because it is in this way that a child learns to be a man. But sometimes, without knowing any better, the child imitates only the bragging, unhappy part of a man. What a man, but is that being a man, a real man . Never becomesy he a man because he never stops pretending. Must adjusty boy showoff. Be may play at being a man by sitting quietly and enjoying the company of his father. Not every boy must just showoff. Every boy is told to grow into a true man, but who knows if this will happen . Too often, the boy will become a turkey, a peacock, a fool, and the girl who loves such a man will become an unhappy wife. At it is possible to grow true man, just as it is possible to grow a seedling into a tree, so a young boy can be cultivated and grown into a full man. A child grows much as a tree grows. Children and trees alike grow for many years, during which they gradually realize the promise of their nature, but they need to be nourished and fed, cultivated and protected in order to reach their full growth. It is true that trees may grow to their full growth and maturity without care, but with wild trees, many young ones are crowded out, many never reaching their full growth. Others rot and die before their time. And so it is with children. They will have a better chance to flourish all of them if they have room to grow and are cared for and loved, especially when they are small. Like a tree, a small child needs a friendly, congenial climate, a climate which comes for the child mainly through the warmth of the parents love for each other. But even the older children flourish in such a climate. The child needs wrote deep roots firmly planted in the strong firmament of family. Such a child grown in manhood and womanhood is better to face the storms and outs of adult life, but lets see how a man could grow histories and his children, what a man and his wife can do and be to help their children or their trees best fulfill their own nature. When juan tomas plant trees, he picks the best soil which he can find. But this earth is made up of more than just the bodies of the parents. There are other things in it, difficult to see, with which we nourish our children. An inner strength and dignity and gentleness that can flow out from a woman who is happy and content with her husband. With such a quality in her, a woman can love children all her children more warmly, more freely. [singing in spanish] the children are raised in an atmosphere children who are raised in an atmosphere in which there is love flourish. [singing in spanish] there is the respect that a man may have for himself. This, too, can fortify those around him. For when a man truly respects himself, when he feels deep inside without having to think about it, i am what i am no a man and no worse, such sees true value in each person around him and accepts it as good. And because such a man and how he feels has a Strong Influence in his house, each person, even a very little one, feels also that he is of some value and importance. All of them can feel deep inside without having to think about it , i am what i am and i find it good because my father finds it good. A man who understands trees or children can be firm but also patient and gentle. When a young child is old enough to dig a hole, it is useless for a father to get angry and say dont dig. He would not say to a tree, dont grow. A wise parent understands that playing is part of the growing of a child. Part of the business of learning how to be a man. Young trees and Young Children will need careful attention for a long time. A wise man never plants more trees than he can care for. Fewer trees, well spaced, proper cultivated will grow better than many trees spaced close together. It is a foolish man who brags, look how many trees i have planted, forgetting he may not be able to care for them properly, forgetting how much water young trees may need. The care of boys and girls continues even when they are almost fully grown. It is a different kind of care when the child is older. Akind of care that can help girl in her effort to think and feel and act by herself more grownup a kind of care. One way Young Children learn about growing up is by imitating the things adults do. The older ones learn in the same way, but what they do is not so much imitating, not so much play. It comes very close to living the way grownups do. At the age boys often feel that they have to show they are men already, proving to themselves, girls, and other boys that they have already found their manhood. For the girls, too, this is a time of testing and proving. Every teenage girl likes to flirt because it makes her feel more of a woman. This is a boy merely showing off. A girl can flirt with a boy but know he is not saying true things. She just she does not have to go with any man who her. She can no when it is time to man, my are not yet a friend. You only think you are. But not everyone can be so lucky as to understand these things. If there is no happiness in the home, if there is too little love or understanding or respect, many a young girl or young man, may leave us closely into marriage with anyone, desiring only to escape the misery of the parents home, to grasp for pleasure, to feel important. Marriage, born out of desperation, made without thought, can doom the young men and woman to a life of unhappiness. Cannot have deep roots in hard unfriendly soil. A child cannot have healthy roots in a house full of anger. Sometimes, children retreat from anger into themselves, into a blind, hopeless apathy. Such a child cannot flourish. Children can build a rescue of warmth for themselves that will protect themselves in such a house. Must do something to escape anger. He cannot live with it. It hurts too much. Sometimes he will defend himself from anger with more anger, with defiance. For some men, turning an angry face to the world is a way of feeling important. His son nor himself neither for his son nor himself can such a man be a true man. There has not always been anger and hatred in this house. The cost of disappointments come because each expect from the other more than he or she can give. Too many children, too much haveing, too much anger made of this woman a nagging, bitter wife, and of the husband a selfish bully. Of the not just one little squabbles of everyday married life. This twisted, crooked kind of anger is bad for a man, bad for a woman, bad for children. The children in such a home may try to escape the anger, perhaps before they are old enough, by doing just what their parents did marrying in haste, without thought, without understanding, without love. But even in a home in which there are love and understanding, there can be serious troubles. A man who desires his child grow straight must understand that each new step toward manhood must be encouraged, but this is sometimes difficult, especially when the new things the child has learned outside the home are unfamiliar to the parents. Whens just such a new step brought home two rabbits one day. His father was full of doubts. Why raise animals that are good for nothing . Who will it rabbits . It is hard for a man who has never eaten rabbit to have his fun tell them they are good. It is hard for a man to accept learning new things from his fun, but the boy is very stubborn. He acts as if he were the man of the house. The boy says he learned about rabbits in school, that they are and easyat and cheap to raise. And besides, he will take care of them all by himself. It is hard for a man to let his son win an argument. It is hard, but a man must do it sometimes. He must let the child take new steps when he is ready. That makes him even more of a man. No one would think of preventing a tree from growing. Neither should one prevent a child from growing. The physical growth of people and of trees is reached one day, but theres another kind of people for people there is possible in the hearts and minds of men and women a growth of experience in understanding, in maturity. Experience, in understanding, in maturity. To raise a real man, one should be a real man. So strong in the feeling of his own worth that he does not pretend to be something he is not. He can be a good son to his parents because he does not have to prove that he is a man. They know it. Gentle with his children. They, too, no he is a man. He has knowledge of himself and respect for himself, and for this reason, he does not have to be a bully or a braggart to make himself feel content. This is what makes a true man. And it is possible to help a child grow into a true man or the wife of a true man, and it is possible for young people to understand how the children they will someday have may also be helped and cultivated and loved so that they, too, will be true men and the wives of true men. In such a home, children can have more patience and understanding toward each other, for they have learned that along with the pleasures of love, there also should be the patience of love, the consideration of love, the understanding of love. That all these things go into making a true man. They know it because they see it in their daily lives at home. They know it because they see it in the way grownups act and feel toward each other, in the way their parents act and feel with them. This man has planted well and cultivated well. His trees and his children will be able to lead stronger and happier, more useful lives because of the care he and his wife have given them. This is a story of people and how they are with each other. The story of a family. What being in such a family can mean to each person in it. May there be peace and honor and happiness for them all in the years to come. You can watch archival films on Public Affairs in their entirety on our weekly serious america here on American History tv our weekly series. The cspan cities tour travels the country, exploring the american story. Since 2011, we have been to more than 200 communities across the nation. Like many americans, our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our cities tour visits. Hi,

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