NERVOUS CHILDREN
What can yon expect with a parent who. teaches her children how to worry? asks a writer in the ‘ Cape Times.’ Why are parents like that? Surely their common sense should tell them how harmful it must bo. Is it stupidity? _ No, because intelligent parents are just as likely to fuss over their children as stupid ones. One of the worst fussers I have ever known was a university professor. Fathers are not immune.
The commonest cause for fussiness is that the parent has himself been overprotected as a child. There is some law in human psychology that makes him tend to re-enact his childhood, to repeat in his own family the harmful cycle. His early training has made it an emotional need for him to over-pro-tect the child, and he will use any real or imaginary complaint of the child to explain and justify that over-protec-tion.
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Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 27
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149NERVOUS CHILDREN Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 27
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