SCHOOL AGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 6

SCHOOL AGE.

In regard to "School Principal's" I®' l * re the above? I did not speak untlnti ingly in my denunciation of kindergartens. I still maintain, as a mother, that the bes place to teach a child self-reliance, etc., is 1" its own home and at the toddling stage, child very soon learns, if left alone, its imagination, and so amuse itself withou help. It is best for its physical and ruont '\ development to be out in the fresh air ai sun all day. Its babyhood is so brief tha surely six years is not very long to ex a mother to have control of her own elm They are never quite the same once they start school. Kindergartens may be necessary in the slums of England and the olcier countries, but not in New Zealand, with ' glorious climate and sparse population. two children were inseparable when little. They never wanted to hang around me or any visitors who might call, and neither of them were precocious—just normal and healthy. Since starting school, they have always been encouraged to bring home any children they cared to, with the result that they have many friends who are treated like the family, aD the house always has children about iti A MOTHER-