Child Rearing
Sir, —In your report of Dr. Katherine Whiteside Taylor’s remarks, we again have the American nonsense of encouraging children to display the emotions of fear, anger and jealousy. For goodness sake, let us subject the normal child to ordinary cultural taboos and forget about tfie safety valves, the “playingout” and the symbolic smashings which have a place in abnormal-psychology, but, extended into ordinary child care, have bred, a generation of Americans to be fodder for the psychiatrists. It is time the experts abandoned symbolism and had a closer look at a few normal, happy kiddies; at their resilience, their adaptability, and their readiness to accept civilised behaviour. The reasonable discipline imposed upon most young children of play-centre age in New Zealand is not a negation of the principles of love and security.—Yours, etc..
• VARIAN J. WILSON. September 22, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30553, 23 September 1964, Page 16
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