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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1959)
MAIX. TRIBWT, MedforJ, Or. Monday, August 17., 19S9 5i Wi s r-77 Family Council : j X Mri. B.N. Sue should have told me this long ago. Sua N. Mother makes a luss about everything. - Mr. B.N. Is it natural for an 18-year-old girl to keep ev erything to herself, not letting her own mother in on import ant matters affecting her? I recently overheard a con versation between my daugh ter, Sue and her friend. From What I could get in snatches I gathered that a much older man, a long-time friend of the family had been making ad vances to her. I was just furious about this! There she sat telling her girl friend something I should have known long ago. I have given this man so much hospitality and he dares to try a thing like that! Sue has begged me not to say any thing. She claims .she can handle it. But I'm seeing red. Sue N. It's just because Mother always acts up that I don't like to tell her things She makes a big fuss over ev ery little thing. I'm not a lit tle girl and I don't think I should be forced to discuss every personal thing with her The man wasn't obnoxious in his advances. He didn't make a pass or anything like that. He just suggested that we ought to get together some time. He said he'd like to know me better. I met him once for lunch and he was very gentlemanly. He said he'd like to take me to the theater some evening, but I was very busy at that time and he said he'd be in touch with me. That's all there was The man is a bachelor of "40. "Is there harm in seeing him? , The Council: It is very fool ish for parents to. pressure adolescents into making con- fidences. For one thing, it can t be done. If they decide to keep a secret they'll do it. Pressure makes them feel , they are being spied upon and they'll go to extremes to pre serve their privacy.' When as sured, more certain of their own independence, they may once again confide in parents. In this case, it is. fairly ob vious that Mrs. B.N. hasn't fully understood the informa tion she gained by eavesdrop ping. Sue has apparently en couraged this man. She may even have initiated the ad- - vances in a subtle way; Na turally she doesn't want her mother to interfere. We gather that Sue found it necessary to boast to her girl friend about this exploit, Possibly she is merely play ing what to her is a very ex citing game. Yet it could have serious sequences. Now that the secret is out, we believe that Mrs. B.N. should caution her daughter against further involvement, It may not help to say any thing to the man if Sue is de termined to go on with this game. It is far more import ant for Sue to make up her mind to avoid a relationship that cannot have a happy outcome. We think that if Sue had happy relationships with young men of a suitable age, " she would be far less in trigued by this older man. These parents should encour age her to involve herself in more social activities with a suitable group of young peo ple. They should openly ob serve her more and intrude on her privacy less. Sue will give many clues to her real feelings. When she sees that her parents understand with out prying, she may feel more encouraged to talk over her problems with them.. (Copyright 1959. General Features Corp.) Bite into crisp, red sweetness! Bite into a slice of the fS 1 JPlP'''0' ' ''l finest watermelon grown anywhere. These melons' i ' ; " .Ls feST"" " 'M have been carefully selected for YOU and rushed to JO TTfSJAil x , J our "Garden Rooms" at peak of season goodness. Mf it SSt T Y IfV. w Ge, one today a, this low price. X LWMWSy wSSSl ' ' 1- ' ' .' ' f MMMISII Wi". , 'W I Breakfast Cereals Portland Plant Closed by Pickets Portland - (UPD - Pickets to day continued to patrol the Union Carbide Metals Co, plant here. 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