COLOUR FOR BABIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 76, 31 March 1941, Page 9

COLOUR FOR BABIES.

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT. An interesting theme for discussion was introduced by the luncheon speaker, Mrs. P. Hurd, at the meeting of the L'nited Women's Movement. Keealling some of her impressions of infant care received abroad, Mrs. Kurd said that colour was largely used as a medium for training for sound psychological adjustment and good behaviour. Pastel tints, whites and creams had been discarded in favour of vivid colours, which soothed and satisfied, while the former irritated and left a sense of loss and incompleteness in the child-mind. The child's natural desire for bright and determined colouring for its toys should be considered, said the speaker, in relation to it* clothes and all with which it came in contact. It was suggested that much of the psychological maladjustment so noticeable to-day may bo due to the present practice of surrounding infants with white and pastel tones; it might Ibe that our grandmothers knew something when they dressed babies in vivid reds and blues. *