CBS Radio Workshop: Only Johnny Knows

A baby cries. With an inborn brass bone conviction that he's the hub of the universe, that's Johnny, as he arrives on this mortal stage. That's how he always arrived down through the ages. The only thing that changes is what we do about him.

Well, what? What do I do? What does he work? What's wrong? What do I do? Pick him up. Not him wide. Pick him up. Bubble him. Pick him up. Not him wide. Pick him up.

Bubble him. The CBS radio workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Tonight only Johnny knows an appraisal of the three ages of child raising, written by a mother named Johanna Johnston, and narrated by Joseph Julian.

There's quite a bit of advice being offered these days on how to raise Johnny. In fact the racket is deafening. Tonight we add to the racket with a calm cool review of the various ways Johnny has been raised in the past and what that led to Together with an appraisal of what's being done now

But of course where that may lead Only Johnny knows Actually the story of Johnny down through the ages could be told in terms of Johnny crying I want and the varying responses of his parents to this cry Sometimes he gets what he wants sometimes he doesn't And the trouble with children today is that they get too much of what they want.

I beg your pardon, who are you? I'm a disgusted observer. Oh yes, of course. I've read many of your letters to the editor in various newspapers. Children of today think all they have to do is want something that's theirs by divine right.

Figuring out what to do about his child, he may assess what was right and what was wrong about his own upbringing. He may even have some pet name for our present-day era. I have them because when it comes to what to call it, only Johnny knows."

You have been listening to the CBS radio workshop and only Johnny knows, written by Johanna Johnston, with music composed and conducted by Charles Paul, and produced and directed in New York by Paul Roberts. Joseph Julian was heard as the narrator, Catherine Anderson as the modern mother, and Jackson Beck as the observer. Also included in the cast were

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