INFLUENCE ON COMMUNITY
Play Centres’ Association
“The Play Centres’ Association can influence city authorities, governments, and all who have the future of children in their hands,” said the supervisor of pre-school services for the Department of Education (Miss M. E. Gallagher) at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Play Centres’ Association.
The indirect education of the community by the association had been lost sight of, she said. By learning to become better parents, many thousands of people were influencing many others in the community. “The quality of what has been done is staggering to the onlooker,” she said. Play centres had advanced from simple play groups, organised to free mothers for essential family duties. Now they had developed an impressive education programme for parents and supervised. “Play centres now have behind them an informed group of parents who can help the child to overcome the normal problems of growing up. Parents learn to feel adequate to bring up their own children, Without the need of specialist knowledge. We have an enormous untapped
resource among parents in terms of the ordinary education available today,” said Miss Gallagher.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29370, 24 November 1960, Page 2
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