Parents Should Listen to Their ‘Junior E-Men’
When I was in grade school during the 1940s, and at the urging of the Fire Department, I was able to persuade my parents to sign pledges that they would never again smoke in bed or throw lighted cigarettes out car windows.
Twenty-five years later, after proper indoctrination by television and school authorities, my son was able to persuade his father and me to give up our smoking habits. Frankly, it never occurred to my parents or to us to question the truth of these childish edicts.
It’s true that children can be self-righteous little twits, but it does not follow that they are wrong.
SABINA M. HUBBARD
Santa Ana
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