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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

XV.