Parents should provide small boys
With the more instructive toys:
Blocks and logs for little ones;
Later, tanks and planes and guns;
Power shovels, tractors, cranes,
Autos and electric trains,
Paints to splash and daub and gild;
Tool chests with which to build;
Hoes and rakes designed to harden
Any softness toward the garden.
Little boys, then, maybe wouldn’t
Get into the things they shouldn’t.
(Sounds nice, but who must be shown
Has a couple of his own!)
by Ray Romine Wednesday, October 24, 1951
