Run when either. It is midday and you have important business. It is midday. School is out. Time for refreshments, jokes, and laughter. It is a time for quietness. For pleasant games and gentle amusements. It is a fine day. School is out. Unaito day, j leaving behind the games, the amusements. But now for the food your mother as prepared, your father also may eat and refresh himself. And is the story of juanito his father and his mother maria, his sister, his little brother baby. And the this is the story of a part of the united states, the island of puerto rico. The story of the people who live on that island. This is a land were many live by farming, where a mans living comes from tobacco or sugar. Whatever the coop the work is art crop, the work is hard. The work is hard, the land is poor. It is difficult for a man to earn a living. This is a story of how people are, how they act with each other, and how they are happy and contented while miserable and afraid. The problems they have. The island, to lend itself, the property on the land had much to do with the nature of a man, a woman, a child. But the nature of people, the way they are goes out of other things to. Get a gross out of the feelings a man has. The way he feels towards them in the man he works with, towards his wife, his children. This is a story of some of those feelings that men and women have, and how those feelings affect the children, out they help to mold the way a child grows, he develops into a man, the kind of man he will be. It is also the story of children and how they feel and what the do togs of a child may the man or woman that a child may grow into. A child learns to be a man by playing, by imitating it is played the things men do, the way grownups act. They pretend to be men, because it makes them feel good inside. It makes them feel more like the grownups they admire most. Say, seeoff as if to what i man i am going to be. And this is good, because it is in this way that a child learns to be a man. But sometimes without knowing any better the child imitates only the bragging, unhappy part of a man. Man, but is that being a man, a real man . Becomess a boy it never a man because he never stops pretending. But not every boy must show off. Can enjoy play at being a man by sitting quietly and enjoying the company of his father. Not every boy must just showoff. Every boy is told to grow into a true man, but who knows if this will happen . Too often, the boy will become a turkey, a peacock, a fool, and the girl who loves such a man may become a disappointed unhappy wife. But it is possible to grow into a true man just as it is possible to grow a ceiling into a fine tree, so a young boy can be cultivated and grown into a full man. And child grows much as a tree grows. Children entries alike grow for many years, during which they gradually realize the promise of their nature, but they need to be nourished and fed, cultivated and protected in order to reach their full growth. It is true that trees may grow to their full growth and maturity without care, but with wild trees many young ones are crowded out, many never reaching their full growth. Others rot and die before their time. And so it is with children. They will have a better chance to flourish, all of them, if they have room to grow and are cared for and loved, especially when they are small. Like a tree a small child needs a friendly, congenial climate. Theimate which comes from child mainly for the want of the parents love for each other. But even the older children flourish and such a climate. A child needs deep roots. Firmly planted in the strong feeling of family. Grown in manhood and womanhood is better to face the storms and outs of adult life, but lets see how a man could grow histories and his children, what a man and his to help theird be children or their trees best fulfill their own nature. When juan tomas plant trees, he picks the best soil which he can find. Amen and his wife are the dirt from which their children grow but this earth is made up of more than just the bodies of the parents. There are other things in it difficult to see with which we nourish our children. There is an inner strength and dignity and gentleness that can flow out from a woman who is happy and content with her husband. With such equality in her, a woman can love children, all her children, more warmly, or freely. In nonenglish] the children who are raised in an atmosphere in which there is love flourish. There is the respect that a man may have for himself. This, too, can fortify those around him. For when a man truly respects himself, when he feels deep inside without having to think about it, i am what i am no better and no worse, such a man sees true value in each person around him and accepts it as good. And howuse such a man he feels has a Strong Influence in his house, each person, even the very little one, feels also that he is of some value and importance. All of them can feel deep inside without having to think about it , i am what i am and i find it good because my father finds it good. A man who understands trees or children can be firm but also patient and gentle. When a young child is old enough to dig a hole, it is useless for a father to get angry and say dont dig. He would not say to a tree, dont grow. A wise parent understands that playing is part of the growing of a child. Part of the business of learning how to be a man. Juncker trees and Young Children will need careful attention for a long time. A wise man never plants or trees then he can care for. Fewer trees, well spaced, properly cultivated will grow better than many trees planted to close together. Brags, foolish man who look how many trees i have planted, forgetting he may not be able to care for them properly, forgetting how much water young trees may need. The care of boys and girls continues even when they are almost fully grown. It is a different kind of care when the child is older. A kind of care that can help a girl and her effort to think and feel and act by herself more grownup. Children learn to be grownup is by imitating in their play the things that grownups too. The older ones learn in the same way but what they do is not so much imitating, not so much play. It comes very close to the way grownups do. Boys often feel that they have to show they are really meant already, proving to themselves and two girls and two other boys that they have already come to manhood. For the girls too this is a time of testing, proving. Every teenage girl likes to flirt, for it makes her feel more of a woman. Sometimes this pulling of manhood is a boy merely showing off. A girl can flirt even though the boy is not seeing two things. She does not have to go with just any man who wants her. She can know when it is time to , myyou are not yet a man friend. You only think you are. But not everyone to be so lucky as to understand these things. If there is no happiness in the home, if there is too little love or respect many a young may leapoung men possibly into marriage with anyone deciding only to escape the misery of the parents home to grasp the pleasure to feel important. Such a marriage born out of desperation made without thought can doom a young men and women to a life of unhappiness. A tree cannot have deep roots in a hard and unfriendly soil. A child cannot have happy roots and a house full of anger. Sometimes children retreat from anger into themselves into a blind, hopeless apathy. Such a child cannot flourish. Children can build a refuge of one and love for themselves. There is no protection from anger in such a house. But a child must do something to escape anger. He cannot live with it. It hurts too much. Sometimes he will defend himself from anger with more anger, with defiance. For some men, turning an angry face to the world is a way of feeling important. Neither for his son nor himself can such a man be a true man. There has not always been anger and hatred in this house. The cost of disappointments come because each expect from the other more than he or she can give. Muchany children, too fighting, too much anger have made of this woman a nagging and bitter wife and of the husband a selfish bully. This is not just one of the littles club is little squabbles of everyday married life. This twisted, crooked kind of anger is bad for a man, bad for a woman, bad for children. The children in such a home may try to escape the anger, perhaps before they are old enough, by doing just what their parents did marrying in haste, without thought, without understanding, without love. But even in a home in which there are love and understanding, there can be serious troubles. A man who desires his child grow straight must understand that each new step toward manhood must be encouraged, but this is sometimes difficult, especially when the new things the child has learned outside the home are unfamiliar to the parents. It was just such a new step when juanito brought home two rabbits one day. The father was full of doubts. Who will eat rabbits . Why raise animals that are good for nothing . It is hard for a man who has to have someabbit feeling that they are good. It is hard for a man to accept learning new things from his fun, but the boy is very stubborn. He acts as if he were the man of the house. The boy says he learned about rabbits in school, that they are good to eat and cheap and easy to raise. And besides, he will take care of them all by himself. It is hard for a man to let his win an argument. It is hard, but a man must do it sometimes. He must let the child take new steps when he is ready. That makes him even more of a man. No one would think of preventing a tree from growing. Neither should one prevent a child from growing. The physical growth of people and of trees is reached one day, but there is another kind of growth with people that may not stop, for there is possible in the hearts and minds of men and women of growth of experience in understanding, immaturity. Man, one should be a real man so strong and the feeling of his own worth that he does not pretend to be something he is not. He can be a good son to his parents because he does not have to prove that he is a man. They know it. He can be gentle with his children. They too know he is a man. He has knowledge of himself and respect for himself, and for this reason, he does not have to be a bully or a braggart to make himself feel content. This is what makes it through man. And it is possible to help a child grow into a true man or the wife of a treatment, and it is possible for young people to understand how the children they will someday have may also be helped and cultivated, so that they too will be true man and the wives of true men. In such a home children can have more patience and understanding toward each other, for they have learned that along with the pleasures of love, there also should be the patience of love, the consideration of love, the understanding of love. They know that all of these things go into making a true man. They know it because they see it in their daily lives at home. They know it because they see it in the way grownups act and feel toward each other. In the way their parents act and feel with them. This man has pointed well and cultivated well. Histories and his children will be able to lead stronger and happier, more useful lives, because of the care he and his wife have given them. This is a story of people, and how they are with each other. The story of a family. What it being in such a family can mean to each person in it. May there be peace and honor and happiness for them all. In the years to come. You can watch archival films on Public Affairs in their entirety on our weekly serious reel america here on American History tv. The cspan cities tour travels the country, exploring the american story. Since 2011, we have been to more than 200 communities across the nation. Like many americans, our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our city tour visits. The corps of cadets came into existence at the same time and a lot of the things that go on your, a lot of the big praditions started with the cor cadets. 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