| Home Making |
Chapter 6 |
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Brothers and sisters have an important duty in the making of the home life. What is their part? Here is a household in which there are two or three sisters, and as many brothers, growing up together. What does each owe to this home? What do they owe the one to the other? How should they live together? What should sisters do for brothers and brothers for sisters? How should sisters help their sisters, and brothers help their brothers?
These are a few of the questions which I would like to start in the minds of young people who are living together in the home of their parents. It is not so much matter whether I answer the questions myself or not. If I can merely start them in the minds of those whom they concern, so that they shall go on thinking about them and trying to answer them practically in their lives, this will be far better than the fullest, completest and wisest answers on the pages of this or any book. I shall be quite content therefore if I can merely set up a few emphatic interrogation points in this chapter.
What should be the home intercourse of brothers and sisters? What should they do toward the home life? How should they live together? These questions may be answered in general by saying that a close and tender friendship should exist between them. This sounds like a very commonplace remark. Of course brothers and sisters should be friends, and should live together in an intimate relationship as friends. No one denies it. But do we universally find this warm, living and tender friendship where there are young people in home? We often find strong ties and attachments, mutual affection and interest, and much that is very beautiful; but when we come closer and look for friendship in the true sense, it is wanting. The brothers and sisters may love one another very truly, but they seek their friends outside the home. The go outside for warm sympathy, for close intimacy, for confidential companionship.
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