Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 26, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg free press wednesday March 26. 1975 ask or. Brothers by or. Joyce Brothers new problems in education dear or. Brothers my father died last month and i refused to allow my two Young children to go to the funeral because i Don t want them to grow up being afraid of death As i have always been. I Veen vied those who seem to be fearless and to have no anxiety about their own death. I be been troubled with depression because of my fear of death and Only recently have 1 even been Able to admit it to my self. Since i can hardly bring my self to go to a funeral i really Don t see the necessity of Mak ing my children go. I Don t be Lieve in an afterlife and i Don t feel i was wrong in sparing my children this ordeal. My Mother and my husband How Ever disagree with me and Don t understand my attitude. . Dear . Whether or not children should attend funerals depends on their age and also upon the parents attitude about death. Parents can t help but communicate their own fears and anxieties to their children. If parents accept death As a part of life and ii they Don t have a morbid fear of death then their children Are Apt to have a healthier View of death. Rituals have a psychological importance in our lives and funerals serve an important Pur pose even though the individual attending May not believe in an afterlife. Rituals serve to unite periods of change in personal lives need to be marked by special ceremonies. People who observe these Ritu als seem better Able to adjust to changes and the alterations that these changes make in their lives. This is particularly True in the Case of death for the ritualistic period of mourn ing and the funeral service it self help survivors to work through their feelings of grief and loss. Rituals such As funerals often help to relieve anxiety for it provides an accepted outlet for the Mourner s grief. I psychologist Donald Templer tested More than people and discovered that almost All of them had some fear of death. Death anxiety is some thing we All carry he says. He 1 discovered that High school students scores were very Miliar to their Parent especially those parents of the same sex. It seems that Moth ers tend to pass their fears on to their daughters and fathers pass their anxiety on to their sons. He observed that we tend to live our lives surrounded by people of similar disposition regarding death and the Gener Al feeling about dying. That you Are Able to admit your anxieties about death and dying is a positive step toward learning to Cope with and Over coming your fear. Open discus Sion about any subject about which we have fears tends to alleviate anxiety. First it helps us to realize that we Are not alone in our feeling and that others suffer from the same anxiety and share our agony. Often a morbid or excessive fear of death can be traced Back to some specific incident in childhood. If that incident can be uncovered and discussed it May help to put it in perspective. The fear of death is a com Mon one. Studies reveal there is no tendency in older people to fear death More than younger people and that it is not a fear one has Only when faced with a severe illness. The death anxiety is fairly con Stant in our lives and it is something we All must accept and learn to live with. Our religious views seem to have some effect upon our attitudes and fears of death. There is a Sault Ste. Marie ont. C p if qualified educationists Are perplexed about the Quality of education no wonder the Public is confused says Florence Henderson educational Secretary for the federation of women teachers association of Ontario few speaking at a meeting of the federation s Nipissing chapter miss Henderson said the Job of the teacher has been clouded by the rapidity and fre Quency of new Fields entering into she said this has caused a move from the Basic academic education into the Eolia aspect adding problems sue As understanding the students emotional difficulties. Approximately 15 new subjects have been added to Brin the teaching of the three r Down to approximately five minutes of a full teaching with each addition to the teacher s Job it becomes Les Lear which Way the Quality of education is miss Henderson said teach is have an average of 35 Stu ends per classroom and of Hose 35, five May have an emotional problem not to men Ion a learning she suggested that someone has to clarify the teachers goals. It is up to society to decide what the schools should be doing. Teachers Are concerned about the children As a whole but when we look at Thi aspect it is difficult to solve one problem without aggravating another. It is difficult to educate a child in the basics let alone his whole potential. The prob Lem is we ire letting each child develop at his own rate. That creates a problem with an average class of 35 Stu dents. This is not Only a prob Lem it is simply she said teachers Are Mak ing the system work reasonably Well considering the High student teacher ratio. In a business you would not put one Man in charge of 35 people but teachers Are confronted with that problem every Oil painting for beginners. I Tirol an Oil painting course Lor be Ginnoro will Slart april 7 at St. James anglican Church 195 collegiate Street St. James Assiniboia. The eight week course will be Noons and thursday evenings Lor adults and after school thursdays for children. Mora information is available from mrs. J. A. Birt on ferry Road. The researchers feel Law students told to mind language Toronto up spokes men will continue to be spokes men not spokespersons on t a r i o labor minister John Macbeth told a spokesman for a delegation of 10 women Law students this week. The women All from the that there is something intrinsic to the nature of the More traditional Christian beliefs that lays to rest the fear of death. Toronto foods Down in Price Toronto up the Price of the Ontario food Council Market Basket dropped by 53 cents or one half of one per cent from the first week of february to the first week of March 1975. It is the second month in a Row the Price of the Market Basket including 127 items priced at five major super markets in metropolitan Toron to has declined. Beef prices dropped nine per cent from one month earlier the Council reported. Sugar was also Down. University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Are members of the newly formed o Ontario women and the Law association. You re not going to get me to change the English Lan he said. It has been with us for a Good number of years. So please Don t Correct me on that the question of terminology arose after the minister asked the women who their spokes Man was at the half hour meeting. The women told the minister that language helps determine thought processes and a per son s refusal to admit that the Structure of language changes is evidence of the Way he thinks. Colleen swords a third year student told or. Macbeth thai we re trying to Point out that behind your language there is an the women represented two of the seven women s caucuses located in Windsor Lon Don Toronto and Kingston which joined together a month ago into the association. Irene Mocciola a first year student read a Brief which expressed dismay with the on Ario government for not Deal ing fully with equal pay. Or. Macbeth replied that everything cannot be accomplished by passing a Law but that society s attitudes must be changed. First year student Sherry Dunn said until there is Legisla Tion outlining the situation women will continue to receive less Money for jobs requiring similar skills and efforts. Wages should be based on the value of the work to the employer. We re submitting you change the onus. Right now it s on the complainant. I think it should be on the or. Macbeth said the government is trying to change the situation but the women said the government is not moving quickly enough. The Brief said the govern ment does Little More than de Mand equal pay for equal work and added that equal pay for equal work excludes evaluation of jobs performed Only by women in comparison with those performed Only by Black Navy red beige Ping cruising Black natural Black Burgundy 24 33 women on ballot in Alberta Edmonton up thirty three women Are seeking to be come members of the Legisla Ture in wednesday s Alberta election almost twice As Many As in the province s last Gener Al election in. 1971. They form about 11 per cent of the total number of candidates. But if the progressive conservatives sweep the province As Many observers have predicted chances Are slim that women Wiki end up holding Many More seats than the two they held when the 75-seat legislature was dissolved last month. Those two seats were held by solicitor general Helen Hunley of Rocky Mountain House and Bac Bencher Catherine Chi Chak of Edmonton Norwood the conservatives Only Womer candidates in 1971 and the Only women the party is Fielding again this year. The Liberal parly which was not represented in the 17tl Alberta legislature claims i women candidates out of 46 the new democrats who a Only one member in the last legislature Are sponsoring 1 women candidates out of 75. Betty Horch of Edmonton Strathcona an employee of a Eal estate firm and the Moth r of three children is the Only woman candidate for the so Ial c r e d i t party which Ormed the official opposition in the last legislature. Two independents have sur aced in the far South one woman in Cypress constituency and one in Pincher Creek irow nest and a 70-year-old Pioneer of the peace River country Vera Lane is running As an Independent Liberal. The liberals and the nip have traditionally attracted More women than the other provincial parties. In 1971, out 18 women candidates the of d p claimed 11 and the liberals three. In the 1967 provincial elec Tion there were 11 women candidates with the nip sponsor ing six and the liberals two. The june 1963, provincial elec Tion saw nine women run com pared with 13 in 1959 and seven in 1955. Women Are attracted to the Liberal party because it is stressing the Quality of life and questioning the importance of Industrial development said Alberta Liberal Leader Nick Taylor. These things always occupy women More than he said in an interview. 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