RADIANT HEALTH CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 17

RADIANT HEALTH CLUB.

"Radiant unfoldment of the child is a natural and simple p'rocess, as in the unfoldment of a flower," said Mr. B. Knight, of the Progressive Educational Centre, in a talk at the club's last meeting.

"There are certain influences, however, which make it difficult for them to unfold naturally," continued Mr. Knight. "Their physical welfare suffers, for example, through lack of sufficient sleep if allowed to stay up late to listen in to wrestling matches and hair-raising thrillers." Late picture-going and reading of low-class literature, he said, was also damaging to the young mind and nerves. Wrong feeding was also an obstacle to the radiance of the child.

AH children were different, said Mr. Rnighfc, and they did not all respond to the same treatment. Schools affected the children differently. Some were very eager to start, and for them the school seemed to be the natural soil for their unfoldment. But then there were children who seemed to be lost in a classroom, unhappy, dull and obviously in the wrong environment. These needed a lot of understanding, and also special care and attention to find out their natural level. Only when that was found and worked from was there any hope for natural progress and happiness for the child. Gardening, he said, was a splendid way of finding out a child's nrtural bents; they were in this way first taught to love and appreciate Mother Nature.