THE HAUGHTY CHILLI

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1923, Page 11

THE HAUGHTY CHILLI

„ .10 THE EDITOR. ... Sir,-—r: noticed a few days aeo in a gesUon-jvas mad e to parents and guardlans.to judiciously use the rod and slipper in the rearing of cliildren. I have totak ? »o« "Vle.Pen than mine to take up the cudgels on behalf of the children. I know I am not alone when I do so. I have brought up a family »f my own and have alwayi been an observer of children, so can write from eu?£ nenCe- should that ■children are given to us like clean slates to write: upon They are born mimics If a mother, habitually speaks in a cen<le ton, to her children the children other hand, she, gets into the all too common habit of raising her voice speakmg crossly and smacking, her *ildren will most surely quarrel and light among themselves. If through outside influences a mother has to cor rect her children, let her take the time —it is _ worth it—and explain to the young innocents why they need correcting. I have always found even' very young children wonderfully quick to learn and appreciate such treatment It' has often hurt me to see parents coniider it a waste of time to have little :hats with their children; some cruel nasty smacks for some/ childish igno^ ranee is more in their line. My advice to parents and guardians is away with .he rod and slipper for ever; there is ibsolutely no need for them in the proper training of the young.—l am, etc., 31st July. ':