Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1964, p. 14

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home and family," Dr. Young said. “and this is an area where we look and wonder. we are sometimes worried about people‘s sense ot values in family life. The urge to be upâ€"to-date has caused some people to dig up the worst from the past. dress in leotards and beards and dirty shirts and call it modern. Some young people consider religion outâ€"of-date, while what is new is the possibility of a faith stronger than ever as we learn what science can do working with God. To hear some people talk you‘d think they had discovered sex, but all anyone can say or do has been done over and over again. Young people who believe that chastity is obsolete and modesty is out-ofâ€"date are only ignorant." Among the things that are really new and in the vanguard of progress, Dr. Young listed education with all its new opportunities for girls: world citizenship and a young person's chance to meet people from other parts of the world. Human freedom is new, he said. so new that we don’t know what to do with it and we‘re making dangerous etcperiments; and if we want something really modern there is the chal- lenge to learn to be interdependent, to learn how to live with others. “If you're proud of being modern," the padre advised, “take up these things that are really new. Then cultivate a reverence for the past. a sense of responsiâ€" bility in the present and a broad vision of the future. Canadian Conference on the Family Dr. Margaret McCready, Dean of Mac- donald Institute. had just returned from the Conference on the Family arranged by Gov- ernor General Vanier and Mrs. Vanier. and had been asked to tell the girls something of the discussions and findings of this gathering. The conference. Dr. McCready said, had agreed that a great need of the future is edu- cation for living in the family. It could be studied as an academic subject or. as is now being done, family living could be related to almost all academic studies. Also We rived classes and discussions both in school and am on the general area of family life. I The welfare of the family must be taken ‘ consideration in the community life. We i use an illustration of this in a community i. m, the mothers set up a co-operative an n: school in their neighborhood, making i= .5. easier for mothers who need such In “The family is now not entirely privai iii partly a public concern because of the 1 ac expense of family breakdown" Dr. Met i. said. She spoke, too. of the disadvantzn iii age groups isolating themselves; and of tli i realization that a family not only rears t. dren â€" it develops parents. too, as ii‘te\ n to live with people of all ages. The t thing in family life is a home where p is love each other and their children. in members are continuously learning, comn \. 1y maturing and continuously having. and solving problems. Education must to: H; to lead from the restrictive, selfish attit i' the infant to the mature world of sharing "Home Economics has a great deal it' :r in education for family living," said Dr Cready. "And we want support for and est in the work that bears directly on the ‘ . â€" not only in foods and clothing and t- furnishing but in human relationships ~ Minister of Education has said that it I portant to recruit more students in how nomiCs to meet the demand for teachn‘ Search, extension and foreign work. experimental course for food supervis to be introduced in technical schools. haps we should also introduce the stt: nursery school work and I would her would interest some boys as well as girls. Home Economics and Horticulturi- Following Dr. McCready's address th‘ had a tour of Macdonald Institute and bers of the staff answered questions and a general outline of the Home Ecot- filo Miss Frances M. Kidd, lel' with an interested grat» following her talk 0- “Choasing a Career." HOME AND com RY

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