HOUSING FOR CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 8

HOUSING FOR CHILDREN

tlio Editor.)

Sir,—lt would appear from "Benedict's" letter that the majority of people do not like little children. That is not the case. What they object to are the bad manners and undisciplined ways of many children. The parents in most cases are to blame ror this. One seldom comes across a child who is obedient. The great idea now is that a child.should be left free to express itself, which it does in, no uncertain manner. The child of ten expresses itself in smashing furniture and destroying property, and if any fault is found father and mother are both much upset. In Wellington many nice streets are completely spoiled by, the footpaths being disfigured with scribblings of chalk' and clay and. the fences marked. If they are so careless about the outside what must they be inside? The lack of discipline is not peculiar to any class, and the few careful parents have to suffer for the careless. Who can blame the landlady for not wanting her rooms spoilt. The streets that I speak of as being disfigured all have houses with sufficient ground around them for the children .to play in.—l am, etc.,

ONE WHO HAS SUFFERED.