University Discipline
Sir, “Parent” writes: “Parents expect the university to join them in exercising discipline . . . The last issue (of ‘Canta’), in the hands of young, vulnerable people, completely undoes the discipline which parents and schools have tried to exercise.” This kind of anxiety about the breakdown of laboriously imposed “discipline” is widespread in New Zealand, where the typical national attitudes on this matter are in urgent need of a complete overhaul. There are ways by which children and young people can gradually develop an adequate measure of self-discipline which is in harmony with the total personality, and which can be depended upon not to evaporate so readily. These ways, incidentally, make for happier and healthier family life. Those who are inter-
ested in studying this matter might read “Childhood and Adolescence” by J. A. Hadfield, Pelican, 1962, and “New Ways in Discipline,” by Dorothy Baruch. There are reasons for believing that the absorption into our culture of the knowledge and viewpoints outlined in such books would save a lot of people a lot of trouble.—Yours, etc., PSYCHIATRIST. April 6, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30410, 8 April 1964, Page 14
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