RESTLESSNESS OF THE YOUNG COLONITL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1907, Page 2

RESTLESSNESS OF THE YOUNG COLONITL.

CTo the Editor.}

Sir, —In your issue of last Wednesday, the 3rd January, I noted in a letter by Dr. Bakewell the following statement appear:—"The young colonial is always gadding about and wanting to be out, and is very restless, very fond of parading the streets of an evening, and will not stay at home," and he cannot understand it. Perhaps I may be able to help him. I have always been a student of cause and effect, and in this case I think I can supply the cause. I know a woman who has about half a dozen boys and girls and she deliberately turns them out of the house, and will not have them in except to meals and bedtime. The boys are compelled to play in the street, and if they dare come in the house they are railed at in a voice pitched about top C, and fortissimo at that. One girl is at service. When she comes home for a holiday she is compelled to get meals or wash up dishes, and abused if she sits in a chair for a minute. Now, if this is not bringing up the very kind of people the good doctor complains of, I would like to know what is. It is very evident that the parent cannot know the saying, " Train a child the way it should go, and when it grows up it will not depart from it." I would like to see the doctor's reply next Wednesday. I always read his letters with pleasure.—l am, etc.,

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