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Title: Child Versus Parent
Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home
Author: Stephen Wise
Release Date: April 24, 2010 [EBook #32118]
Language: English
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CHILD _vs._ PARENT
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO
CHILD VERSUS PARENT
_Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict
in the Home_
BY
STEPHEN S. WISE
RABBI OF THE FREE SYNAGOGUE
Author of "The Ethics of Ibn Gabirol," "How to Face Life,"
"Free Synagogue Pulpit," etc.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
_All rights reserved_
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1922.
BROWN BROTHERS, LINOTYPERS
NEW YORK
TO THE MEMORY
OF
MY MOTHER,
SABINE DE FISCHER WISE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. FACING THE PROBLEM 1
II. BACK OF ALL CONFLICTS 11
III. SOME PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES UNMET 19
IV. THE ART OF PARENTAL GIVING 30
V. THE OBLIGATION OF BEING 41
VI. WARS THAT ARE NOT WARS 53
VII. CONFLICTS IRREPRESSIBLE 62
VIII. CONFLICTING STANDARDS 69
IX. THE DEMOCRATIC REGIME IN THE HOME 76
X. REVERENCE THY SON AND THY DAUGHTER 84
XI. THE OBSESSION OF POSSESSION 94
XII. PARENTS AND VICE-PARENTS 104
XIII. WHAT OF THE JEWISH HOME? 113
XIV. THE JEWISH HOME TODAY 120
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